SuicideResearchText-Vol3:SuicideResearchText-Vol3 1/12/10 4:13 PM Page i SUICIDE RESEARCH: SELECTED READINGS Volume 3 November 2009–April 2010 J. Sveticic, A. Milner, D. De Leo Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention National Centre of Excellence in Suicide Prevention SuicideResearchText-Vol3:SuicideResearchText-Vol3 1/12/10 4:13 PM Page ii First published in 2010 Australian Academic Press 32 Jeays Street Bowen Hills Qld 4006 Australia www.australianacademicpress.com.au Copyright for the Introduction and Comments sections is held by the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, 2010. Copyright in all abstracts is retained by the current rights holder. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1968, no part may be reproduced without prior permission from the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention. ISBN: 9781921513251 SuicideResearchText-Vol3:SuicideResearchText-Vol3 1/12/10 4:13 PM Page iii Contents Foreword ................................................................................................vii Acknowledgments ..............................................................................viii Introduction Context ..................................................................................................1 Methodology ........................................................................................2 Key articles Andersen et al, 2010. Suicide in selected occupations in Queensland: evidence from the State suicide register ....................................................8 Bergen et al, 2009. A comparative study of non-fatal self-poisoning with antidepressants relative to prescribing in three centres in England ......10 Bergmans et al, 2009. Moving from full-time healing work to paid employment: Challenges and celebrations ..................................12 Burke et al, 2010. Effect of exposure to suicidal behavior on suicide attempt in a high-risk sample of offspring of depressed parents ............14 Corcoran et al, 2010. Use of analgesics in intentional drug overdose presentations to hospital before and after the withdrawal of distalgesic from the Irish market ..............................................................16 Currier et al, 2010. Mobile crisis team intervention to enhance linkage of discharged suicidal emergency department patients to outpatient psychiatric services: a randomized controlled trial ............19 Doessel et al, 2010. The trend in mental health-related mortality rates in Australia 1916-2004: Implications for policy ................................22 Fishbain et al, 2009. Risk for five forms of suicidality in acute pain patients and chronic pain patients vs pain-free community controls ......24 Gould et al, 2009. Service use by at-risk youths after school-based suicide screening ......................................................................................26 Gradus et al, 2010. Posttraumatic stress disorder and completed suicide........................................................................................................28 Hay et al, 2010. Bullying victimization and adolescent self-harm: testing hypotheses from general strain theory ........................................30 iii SuicideResearchText-Vol3:SuicideResearchText-Vol3 1/12/10 4:13 PM Page iv Hawton et al, 2009. How adolescents who cut themselves differ from those who take overdoses ................................................................32 Hegerl et al, 2009. Sustainable effects on suicidality were found for the Nuremberg alliance against depression........................................34 Hunt et al, 2010. Suicide amongst psychiatric in-patients who abscond from the ward: a national clinical survey ....................................36 King et al, 2010. One-year follow-up of suicidal adolescents: Parental history of mental health problems and time to post-hospitalization attempt......................................................................38 Lam et al, 2009. The association between internet addiction and self-injurious behaviour among adolescents......................................40 Lemstra et al, 2009. Suicidal ideation: the role of economic and Aboriginal cultural status after multivariate adjustment ....................42 Mauerhofer et al, 2009. GPs’ role in the detection of psychological problems of young people: A population-based study............................44 Price et al, 2009. Cannabis and suicide: longitudinal study ....................46 Reutfors et al, 2010. Suicide and hospitalization for mental disorders in Sweden: A population-based case-control study ................................48 Robertson et al, 2009. Drugs associated with more suicidal ideations are also associated with more suicide attempts ......................................50 Seemüller et al, 2009. Does early improvement in major depression protect against treatment emergent suicidal ideation? ............................52 Shemanski Aldrich et al, 2009. The development of effective message content for suicide intervention ................................................54 Swahn et al, 2010. Pre-teen alcohol use initiation and suicide attempts among middle and high school students: Findings from the 2006 Georgia Student Health Survey ........................................56 Vannoy et al, 2010. Suicide inquiry in primary care: creating context, inquiring, and following up ......................................................................58 Voracek et al, 2009. Consistency of immigrant suicide rates in Austria with country-of-birth suicide rates: A role for genetic risk factors for suicide? ............................................................................60 Wiktorsson et al, 2010. Attempted suicide in the elderly: characteristics of suicide attempters 70 years and older and a general population comparison group ..................................................62 Zhao et al, 2010. Suicidal ideation and attempt among adolescents reporting ‘unsure’ sexual identity or heterosexual identity plus same-sex attraction or behavior: forgotten groups?............64 iv SuicideResearchText-Vol3:SuicideResearchText-Vol3 1/12/10 4:13 PM Page v Recommended readings ..................................................................67 Citation list Fatal suicidal behaviour: Epidemiology ..............................................................................148 Risk and protective factors ..........................................................153 Prevention ....................................................................................161 Postvention and bereavement ....................................................163 Non-fatal suicidal behaviour: Epidemiology ..............................................................................164 Risk and protective factors ..........................................................166 Care and support ........................................................................185 Prevention ....................................................................................187 Case reports ......................................................................................189 Miscellaneous.....................................................................................194 v SuicideResearchText-Vol3:SuicideResearchText-Vol3 1/12/10 4:13 PM Page vi SuicideResearchText-Vol3:SuicideResearchText-Vol3 1/12/10 4:13 PM Page vii Foreword This volume contains quotations from internationally peer-reviewed suicide research published during the semester November 2009 to April 2010; it is the third of a series produced biannually by our Institute with the aim of assisting the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing in being constantly updated on new evidences from the scientific community. The initial section of the volume collects a number of publications that could have particular relevance for the Australian people in terms of potential applicability. These researches are accompanied by a short comment from us, and an explanation of the motives that justify why we have considered of interest the implementation of studies’ findings in the Australian context. An introductory part provides the ration- ale and the methodology followed in the identification of papers. The central part of the volume represents a selection of research articles of par- ticular significance that represent a remarkable advancement of suicide research knowledge; their abstracts are reported in extenso, underlining our invitation at reading those papers in full text. The last section reports all items retrievable from major electronic databases. We have catalogued them on the basis of their prevailing reference to fatal and non-fatal suicidal behaviours, with various sub-headings (e.g. epidemiology, risk factors, and so on). The derived list guarantees a level of completeness superior to any individual system; it can constitute a useful tool for all those interested in a quick update of what has been most recently published on the topic. Our intent is to make suicide research more approachable to non-specialists, and in the meantime provide an opportunity for a vademecum of quotations credible also at the professional level. A compilation such as the one that we provide here is not easily obtainable from usual sources and can save a considerable amount of time to readers. We believe that our effort in this direction may