@article{ref1,
title="Suicide attempters' reaction to survival as a risk factor for eventual suicide",
journal="American journal of psychiatry",
year="2005",
author="Henriques, Gregg and Wenzel, Amy and Brown, Gregory K. and Beck, Aaron T.",
volume="162",
number="11",
pages="2180-2182",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to evaluate whether suicide attempters' reaction to surviving their attempt predicted eventual suicide. METHOD: Three hundred ninety-three suicide attempters were categorized on the basis of their reaction to having survived their attempt (i.e., glad to be alive, ambivalent, wished they were dead) and were followed for 5 to 10 years to determine whether they completed suicide. RESULTS: A survival analysis found that subjects who said that they wished they had died after a suicide attempt were 2.5 times more likely to commit suicide eventually than those who were glad they survived and those who were ambivalent about the attempt. CONCLUSIONS: Suicide attempters' reaction to surviving is an important clinical variable that is easily assessed in evaluations that occur following a suicide attempt.",
language="",
issn="0002-953X",
doi="10.1176/appi.ajp.162.11.2180",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.162.11.2180"
}