Executive summary “Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive
in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating intellect—as to verge close to …

Suicidal behavior is a major problem worldwide and, at the same time, has received
relatively little empirical attention. This relative lack of empirical attention may be due in part …

Objectives To assess the association between gender and suicide attempt/death and
identify gender-specific risk/protective factors in adolescents/young adults. Methods …

In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to
answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly …

The World Health Organization has granted translation and publication rights for an edition
in Finnish to the Finnish Association for Mental Health, which is solely responsible for the …

About 14% of the global burden of disease has been attributed to neuropsychiatric
disorders, mostly due to the chronically disabling nature of depression and other common …

The causes of suicidal behaviour are not fully understood; however, this behaviour clearly
results from the complex interaction of many factors. Although many risk factors have been …

BACKGROUND: Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder in people who die by
suicide. Awareness of risk factors for suicide in depression is important for clinicians …

Question Effective prevention of suicide requires a comprehensive understanding of risk
factors. Study selection and analysis Five databases were systematically searched to …

Suicide is a major health problem, and the global suicide mortality rate amounts to 1.4% of
all deaths worldwide. Most suicides are related to psychiatric disease, with depression …