Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
...violence, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and suicidality are all extremely important and should be included as part of a comprehensive health assessment of adolescents. Furthermore, clinicians, educators and other professionals working with youth should be trained to routinely screen for violence victimiza...Genetic variations may predispose some men to suicidal thoughts during treatment for depression
...ication studies find that some patients experience suicidality [suicidal thoughts and behaviors] after treatment ...ficantly and strongly associated with the onset of suicidality in men, but not in women. The researchers performed additional analyses suggesting these variation...Sleep disturbances, nightmares are common among suicide attempters: Journal Sleep
...r finding of an association between nightmares and suicidality does not imply causality," said Sjstrm. "However, our findings should inspire clinicians to include questions concerning sleep disturbance and especially nightmares in the clinical assessment of suicidal patients." Nightmares are disturbing, visual...Levels of serious mental illness in Katrina survivors doubled compared to earlier survey
...g Katrina survivors is not surprising, but the low suicidality is a surprise," says Ronald Kessler, PhD, professor of health care policy at HMS and lead author of the study. "Our concern, though, is that this lowering of suicidal tendencies appears to be strongly associated with expectations for recovery efforts...Katrina survey shows many suffered extreme adversity and show signs of post-traumatic stress
...e psychological scaffolding protecting against the suicidality often associated with extreme distress. This ...e result also has to be pointed out: that the low suicidality might be temporary. ...Cancer survivors at risk for suicidal thoughts, attempts
...s the first to substantiate a significant level of suicidality many years or even decades after treatment for childhood cancers, and to suggest a link with physical functioning in the survivorship period Recklitis and colleagues conducted the study with the participation of 226 adult survivors of childhood can...Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State get grant to study link between antidepressants and suicidality in teens
...o investigate the link between antidepressants and suicidality -- including suicidal thoughts, attempts and suici...niques, the researchers found an increased risk of suicidality only among adolescents who suffered from major depressive disorder, and then only among those who to...US suicide rates fell as fluoxetine prescriptions increased
...h the current issue concerning antidepressants and suicidality requires further examination," they say, "we believe that many more lives have been saved than lost since the advent of these drugs." In a commentary on the new study, Bernhard Baune and Philippa Hay (James Cook University, Australia), who were not ...Negative body image related to depression, anxiety and suicidality
...ficantly higher levels of depression, anxiety, and suicidality than other patients with no body image concerns. Those with eating disorders had significantly higher rates of depression than those without body image concerns. "These findings underscore just how central feelings about one's appearance tend to be ...Antidepressants may be associated with modestly increased risk of suicidality in children
...e physicians have suspected that patients' risk of suicidality (suicidal thoughts and behavior) increased when pe...d a link between the antidepressant paroxetine and suicidality in pediatric patients. The FDA then requested pediatric data from the manufacturers of eight other ...Treating individuals with substance-abuse disorders who have attempted suicide
...y encourage treatment providers to assess for both suicidality and substance use in their patients, but also encourage them to refer the suicidal patient to SUD treatment or even provide SUD treatment for them. "One should not immediately conclude that a suicide attempt precludes these individuals from SUD trea......d treatments widely may, in fact, help explain why suicidality did not decline in response to the treatment increases during the 1990s. This means that expansion of disease management programs, treatment quality-assurance programs, and 'report cards' to improve the quality of care for suicidal patients may all b...