@article{ref1,
title="Health care contacts before and after attempted suicide",
journal="Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology",
year="2002",
author="Suominen, Kirsi H. and Isometsä, Erkki T. and Ostamo, Aini I. and Lönnqvist, Jouko K.",
volume="37",
number="2",
pages="89-94",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The prevalence and timing of contact with health care predicting and after a suicide attempt are not well known. This study systematically investigated the pattern of all health care contacts both before and after attempted suicide. METHODS: All consecutive 1,198 suicide attempters treated in hospital emergency rooms in Helsinki during a 12-month period were identified. Data were gathered on all health care contacts 1 year before and after the index attempt. RESULTS: The vast majority of the suicide attempters had contact with health care during the 12 months before and after the index attempt. However, half were without a treatment contact during the final 30 days before the index attempt and one-third in the 30 days following the attempt. Suicide attempters who were not referred to aftercare, did not suffer from a previously recognised major mental disorder, were male, or made non-violent attempts were less likely to be receiving treatment after the attempt. CONCLUSION: Although most suicide attempters have contact with health care within the year before and after the parasuicide, far fewer actually have a treatment contact at the time of the attempt.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0933-7954",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}