• A 2008 review found that nonfatal self-injury is more common in women, and a separate study from 2008/2009 found suicidal thoughts higher among females, as well as significant differences between genders for suicide planning and suicide attempts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Without commonly agreed-upon operational definitions, some suicidology researchers regard many suicide attempts as parasuicide (para- meaning near) or self harm behavior, rather than "true" suicide attempts, as in lacking suicidal intent. (wikipedia.org)
  • Recent meta-analytic evidence suggests that the association between suicide attempt and suicidal death may not be as strong as it was thought before. (wikipedia.org)
  • International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day Mental health first aid Suicidal ideation Suicide crisis World Suicide Prevention Day Danuta Wasserman (2016). (wikipedia.org)
  • The ability to identify risk factors for suicidal behavior is critical to selected and indicated prevention efforts among those at elevated risk of suicide. (nature.com)
  • In addition, follow-up of patients completing suicide risk assessments have found that predictive models applied to EHR data achieved higher sensitivity and specificity in identifying suicidal behavior than clinical assessments 15 . (nature.com)
  • According to the 2021 Uganda Refugee Suicide Dashboard published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of suicidal attempts recorded as of June 2021 more than doubled the total number recorded for 2020. (independent.co.ug)
  • According to the Refugee dashboard, 28 percent of the suicidal attempts were due to family disagreements. (independent.co.ug)
  • Some of the most common triggers of suicidal attempts are family disagreements, poverty, domestic violence, mental illnesses and community stigmatization. (independent.co.ug)
  • Despite suicidal attempts being linked to mental illnesses such as depression, often people whose suicidal attempts are stopped by security forces are arrested and charged before courts of law. (independent.co.ug)
  • People who have suicidal ideations are not fine and they should be allowed to express themselves freely because this is the only way they can get help and not attempt suicide. (independent.co.ug)
  • Conclusions An increased risk of attempted suicide was apparent up to six months after the end of treatment with isotretinoin, which motivates a close monitoring of patients for suicidal behaviour for up to a year after treatment has ended. (bmj.com)
  • The disturbingly high prevalence of suicide attempts among people with ADHD underline the importance of health professionals screening patients with ADHD for mental illness and suicidal thoughts," said co-author Senyo Agbeyaka, a recent University of Toronto MSW graduate who is a social worker at University Health Network. (medicalxpress.com)
  • The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can be reached at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) at all hours if you or someone you know is struggling with mental illness or thoughts of suicide. (aol.com)
  • She attempted suicide in 2013 and told Rolling Stone in 2017 that she has tried to commit suicide 'multiple times. (eonline.com)
  • The number of people thinking of and attempting to commit suicide is on the rise, according to mental health experts from the Ministry of Health. (independent.co.ug)
  • As of June, 177 refugees had attempted to commit suicide in the country. (independent.co.ug)
  • Dr Priscilla Atim, a psychiatrist at Butabiika National Mental Referral Hospital says there are many things that can trigger someone to commit suicide. (independent.co.ug)
  • Figures from the World Health Organisation show that 703,000 people commit suicide annually, with 77 percent of the cases occurring in low and middle-income countries. (independent.co.ug)
  • A man on Wednesday afternoon stabbed his wife to death and attempted to commit suicide, but he was arrested and hospitalised under police guard. (demerarawaves.com)
  • An increase in the odds ratio of suicide attempts was also observed in comparing SSRIs with therapeutic interventions other than tricyclic antidepressants (1.94, 1.06 to 3.57, 239). (bmj.com)
  • In the pooled analysis of SSRIs versus tricyclic antidepressants, we did not detect a difference in the odds ratio of suicide attempts (0.88, 0.54 to 1.42). (bmj.com)
  • 7 A more recent review of data from 77 trials submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found a non-significant increase in suicide rates between patients allocated to SSRIs and those allocated to placebo or other antidepressants. (bmj.com)
  • The drugs most used in these attempts were OTC pain relievers, antidepressants, antihistamines and antipsychotics. (homeword.com)
  • Jackson's attempted suicide comes on the heels of the explosive HBO documentary, Leaving Neverland , which first premiered at Sundance earlier this year. (eonline.com)
  • What do you think about Murray's response to Paris Jackson's suicide attempt? (inquisitr.com)
  • The International Handbook of Suicide Prevention. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nearly a quarter of attempted suicides at metro stations could be identified using real-time CCTV to spot certain behaviours for prevention, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Public Health . (biomedcentral.com)
  • Because suicide prevention programs have done little to reduce suicides in this vulnerable population, the social acceptance conveyed by changes in law appears to be uniquely powerful. (latimes.com)
  • What we were seeing was youth increasing suicide attempts using medications readily available in the home," said study author John Ackerman, suicide prevention coordinator at the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. (homeword.com)
  • We examined the epidemiology of suicide attempters requiring inpatient care in Abu Dhabi to identify associated factors that could aid local suicide prevention strategies. (who.int)
  • Suicide attempts are more common among adolescents in developing countries than developed ones. (wikipedia.org)
  • All told, the researchers estimated, from 1999 to 2015, same-sex marriage policies would be associated each year with 134,000 fewer adolescents attempting suicide. (latimes.com)
  • In the first part of the study the researchers were given access to multiple camera CCTV footage of 66 previous suicide attempts from a metro station in Montreal, Canada. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In the second part of the study the researchers showed 33 independent observers single-camera footage, from 63 previous suicide attempts, of the five minutes leading up to but not including the attempt itself and asked them to note which of the behaviours from a list that they could spot. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Paris Jackson is letting her voice be heard after an earlier report that she had been hospitalized due to a suicide attempt. (eonline.com)
  • Paris Jackson, the 15-year-old daughter of pop star Michael Jackson, attempted suicide on Wednesday morning and then called a suicide hotline for help. (inquisitr.com)
  • But should the man that Paris Jackson may view as her father's killer really be calling her up within hours of the sensitive teen-age girl's suicide attempt ? (inquisitr.com)
  • Paris Jackson took up to 20 ibuprofen tablets and cut her wrists with a knife before placing the call to the suicide hotline. (inquisitr.com)
  • Rates of attempted suicide among gay, lesbian and bisexual youths are difficult to capture not only because they deal with suicide attempts - behavior that often goes unacknowledged - but because the behavior of interest happens in a group that constitutes a stigmatized minority. (latimes.com)
  • In an editorial published alongside the study, Columbia University public health specialist Mark L. Hatzenbuehler acknowledges that no single factor can fully explain a complex behavior such as suicide. (latimes.com)
  • If you or someone you know has the warning signs for suicide, get help right away , especially if there is a change in behavior. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Constance Wu returned to Twitter for the first time in nearly three years to announce her new book, "Making a Scene," and to reveal she attempted suicide following the backlash that erupted against her in 2019. (yahoo.com)
  • Records from the 2020 Police Annual Crime Report show that 197 attempts of suicide were recorded in the country. (independent.co.ug)
  • 30 of these were successful compared to 309 attempts and 37 successful cases in 2020. (independent.co.ug)
  • Esme Fuller-Thomson et al, The Dark Side of ADHD: Factors Associated With Suicide Attempts Among Those With ADHD in a National Representative Canadian Sample, Archives of Suicide Research (2020). (medicalxpress.com)
  • Findings: For students with LTHP, 13.5% reported suicide ideation, while 8.0% of students without LTHP reported suicide ideation. (cdc.gov)
  • They compared samples of patients with and without a history of suicide attempt(s) and found distinct blood-based multi-omics signatures between the two groups, despite all patients having the same diagnosis of major depressive disorder. (newswise.com)
  • As patients with a history of suicide attempts before treatment made new attempts to a lesser extent than did patients who started such behaviour in connection with treatment, patients with severe acne should not automatically have isotretinoin treatment withheld because of a history of attempted suicide. (bmj.com)
  • This study demonstrates that the combination of state-level hospital discharge and mortality data can be used to identify suicide attempters who are at high risk of subsequent suicide death. (nature.com)
  • Suicides occur in all urban transit systems where there are no physical barriers to block access to the tracks, and although most attempters do not die, they often suffer serious injuries as a result. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This 4-year (2011-2014) study of suicide attempters in the city of Abu Dhabi included all attempters assessed by the consultation-liaison team and admitted to the 3 main governmental general hospitals. (who.int)
  • Just over 13% of the attempters had made one previous attempt and 2.2% had made more than one. (who.int)
  • Similar figures were found in a follow-up study of suicide attempters in Kuwait where 1.1% of suicide attempters completed suicide within 2 years (3). (who.int)
  • however, these studies were done on cases of completed suicide and we are not aware of any studies that have addressed the characteristics of suicide attempters in the United Arab Emirates. (who.int)
  • The mortality risk is highest during the first months and years after the attempt: almost 1% of individuals who attempt suicide will die by suicide if the attempt is repeated within one year. (wikipedia.org)
  • A high-risk group with a four-fold increase in suicide mortality risk was identified based on the out-of-sample predicted survival probabilities. (nature.com)
  • Our finding that one in four Canadian women with ADHD had attempted suicide highlights the urgency of providing adequate mental health supports across the life course to this vulnerable and neglected group," said Lauren Carrique, a recent graduate of University of Toronto's Masters in Social Work (MSW) program who is a social worker at Toronto General Hospital. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Knowing that women with ADHD who have experienced childhood adversities and adults with a history of substance dependence and/or depression are particularly vulnerable to attempting suicide will hopefully help clinicians improve targeting and outreach to this population. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Suicide is, of course, very common in this vulnerable patient group, but a deeper analysis shows that the excess mortality is largely attributable to non-psychiatric diseases," explains Jussi Jokinen, psychiatrist and professor at UmeĆ„ University and researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience. (cision.com)
  • While it may be described as a "failed" or "unsuccessful" suicide attempt, mental health professionals discourage the use of these terms as they imply that a suicide resulting in death is a successful or desirable outcome. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the United States, the National Institute of Mental Health reports there are 11 nonfatal suicide attempts for every suicide death. (wikipedia.org)
  • More importantly, Hurst has become outspoken in ending the stigma of mental health struggles, having also lost an uncle and cousin to suicide. (aol.com)
  • I seek no sympathy and feel no shame in admitting that on the evening of 18 January 2005, I attempted to end the overwhelming mental pain which had consumed my whole being. (hellomagazine.com)
  • Dr Hafsa Lukwata, the assistant commissioner in charge of mental health at the ministry of health says that they have received many reports of persons who have attempted to take their own lives due to COVID-19. (independent.co.ug)
  • Teens are at a higher risk of committing suicide within two years of their parents committing suicide or being treated for mental disorder, a new study says. (medicaldaily.com)
  • Even when we took into account history of mental illness, and the higher levels of poverty and early adversities that adults with ADHD often experience, those with ADHD still had 56% higher odds of having attempted suicide than their peers without ADHD" reported lead author Esme Fuller-Thomson, Professor at University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Director of the Institute for Life Course and Aging. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Recent analysis indicates that the overall age-adjusted suicide rates have increased in the United States from 1999 to 2016, with increases reported among men and women and across all age groups 2 despite the fact that suicide screening questions are a standard component of the clinical psychiatric interview. (nature.com)
  • The Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office says a man is dead following an apparent murder-suicide attempt in Bayou Chicot. (katc.com)
  • She had been hospitalized for drugs and alcohol, an apparent suicide attempt. (today.com)
  • The number needed to harm was 2300 new six month treatments per year for one additional first suicide attempt to occur and 5000 per year for one additional repeat attempt. (bmj.com)
  • Professor Mishara said: "In our experiment the observers only spotted indicating behaviours from our list in 53% of the videos they viewed where actual suicide attempts took place. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The study shows that actual suicide caused a smaller proportion of deaths in those who had been admitted into care for attempted suicide or self-harming behaviour. (cision.com)
  • A significant increase in the odds of suicide attempts (odds ratio 2.28, 95% confidence 1.14 to 4.55, number needed to treat to harm 684) was observed for patients receiving SSRIs compared with placebo. (bmj.com)
  • In this study, women with ADHD had more than twice the odds of suicide attempts compared to men with ADHD. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Adults with ADHD who had been exposed to chronic parental domestic violence had triple the odds of suicide attempts compared to their peers with ADHD who had not experienced that childhood adversity. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Discussion Our systematic review, which included a total of 87 650 patients, documented an association between suicide attempts and the use of SSRIs. (bmj.com)
  • Given the controversy, we undertook a systematic review of all published randomised controlled trials regardless of treatment indication, to evaluate the association between suicide attempts and the use of SSRIs. (bmj.com)
  • A systematic review of 90 studies found the risk to be particularly high in the first year after the attempt as 2% will end up with completed suicide. (who.int)
  • Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's recent announcement to force nearly 5,500 Lao Hmong political refugees back to the military regime that they fled in Laos has sparked a wave of suicide attempts by the refugees who now reportedly face another major food cut off in Thailand. (scoop.co.nz)
  • At least 700,000 Americans survive a suicide attempt each year. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nearly 700,000 people worldwide die by suicide every year, along with 10-20 times as many non-fatal suicide attempts, according to the World Health Organization. (newswise.com)
  • Twenty-eight clinical factors from the prior suicide attempt were found to be significantly associated with the hazard of subsequent suicide mortality. (nature.com)
  • He tells TMZ that he's been getting to know himself better in hopes of avoiding the "dark place" that led to his relapse and subsequent suicide attempt. (thehollywoodgossip.com)
  • Suicide risk among self-harm patients is hundreds of times higher than in the general population. (wikipedia.org)
  • We used widely available statewide hospitalization data to identify and test the joint predictive power of clinical risk factors associated with death by suicide for patients previously hospitalized for a suicide attempt (N = 19,057). (nature.com)
  • These risk factors and their two-way interactions were used to build a joint predictive model via stepwise regression, in which the predicted individual survival probability was found to be a valid measure of risk for later suicide death. (nature.com)
  • The expanded use of electronic health records (EHR) in the US has stimulated efforts to identify patients at risk of suicide in different populations. (nature.com)
  • Despite the promise of using large healthcare databases to identify patients at risk of suicide, a critical challenge still remains: how to incorporate such models into clinical practice in diverse healthcare settings. (nature.com)
  • In both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, childhood sexual abuse was consistently associated with increased risk of suicide attempts. (nih.gov)
  • The new findings, published in Frontiers Pharmacology , are key to individualized treatment strategies and early identification of patients who are at the highest risk for suicide. (newswise.com)
  • A prior suicide attempt is the highest risk factor for suicide in the general population. (newswise.com)
  • Objective To assess the risk of attempted suicide before, during, and after treatment with isotretinoin for severe acne. (bmj.com)
  • However, the risk of attempted suicide was already rising before treatment, so an additional risk due to the isotretinoin treatment cannot be established. (bmj.com)
  • This study is the first to examine the behaviours of people at metro stations using CCTV footage, and their association with suicide risk. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We found that the presence of two or more of following behaviours may indicate suicide risk: leaving objects on the platform, frequently looking down the tunnel, standing for long periods of time on the yellow line or continually walking on the yellow line, looking physically agitated, staring at the tracks or the tunnel for long periods of time and seeming depressed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Can CCTV identify people in public transit stations who are at risk of attempting suicide? (biomedcentral.com)
  • Who is at risk for suicide? (medlineplus.gov)
  • It is well established that attempting suicide significantly increases a person's risk of completing suicide. (who.int)
  • The risk is considered to be particularly high in the first year after the attempt. (who.int)
  • Females younger than 30 years were at higher risk of attempting suicide, with overdosing on paracetamol as the preferred method. (who.int)
  • It is well established that attempting suicide significantly increases the person's risk of completed suicide: prior suicide attempt is the single most important risk factor for suicide (1). (who.int)
  • This risk continues to be high even up to 9 years after the indexed attempt (2). (who.int)
  • Another study in England showed that the risk of a completed suicide in the year following the attempt increased 50 times compared with the risk in the general population (4). (who.int)
  • Newswise - ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that people with major depressive disorder and a history of attempted suicide have distinct biomarkers that correlate with their response to antidepressant therapy. (newswise.com)
  • Researchers conducted several statistical tests allowing them to compare, apples to apples, rates of attempted suicide in one state in the year following a change in law with attempted suicide rates in states that had not adopted marriage equality. (latimes.com)
  • Depression is the main trigger of suicide. (independent.co.ug)
  • The association between acne, psychiatric morbidity, and suicide attempts has been described, 7 8 9 10 11 and some authors have observed that isotretinoin actually leads to an improvement in anxiety and depression because of the clearing of disfiguring acne. (bmj.com)
  • 75% of all suicide attempts are by drug overdose, a method that is often thwarted because the drug is nonlethal, or is used at a nonlethal dosage. (wikipedia.org)
  • In an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes set to be broadcast on Sunday, Ruth Madoff said she and her husband attempted to overdose on a combination of pills including the sleep aid Ambien. (cnn.com)
  • Then came a fourth attempt in 2010, Wood noted, referring to her hospitalization for an overdose in Cape Coral, Fla. At the time, authorities couldn't definitively say whether the incident was accidental or not. (today.com)
  • He explained that the overdose was a suicide attempt and not a direct result of his addiction. (thehollywoodgossip.com)
  • People who attempt either hanging or carbon monoxide poisoning and survive can face permanent brain damage due to cerebral anoxia. (wikipedia.org)
  • When people survive a self-poisoning suicide attempt, they may have heart problems or seizures afterwards. (homeword.com)
  • People who survive a suicide attempt may have serious injuries that can affect their long-term health. (medlineplus.gov)
  • News that they cannot confirm the name of the victim but said, 'Today at about 7:28 in the morning, Hollywood units responded for a radio call of an ambulance attempt suicide. (eonline.com)
  • The late country artist, who fatally shot herself on Sunday, appears to have attempted suicide four times over the past seven years. (today.com)
  • More specifically, in a 16-year period during which changes in state marriage laws were sweeping the nation, states that adopted laws allowing same-sex marriage saw an immediate decline in suicide attempts by gay, lesbian and bisexual high school students - a group in which attempted suicide is two to seven times more common than among their heterosexual peers. (latimes.com)
  • Main outcome measures Standardised incidence ratio (observed number divided by expected number of suicide attempts standardised by sex, age, and calendar year), calculated up to three years before, during, and up to 15 years after end of treatment. (bmj.com)
  • During the year before treatment, the standardised incidence ratio for attempted suicide was raised: 1.57 (95% confidence interval 0.86 to 2.63) for all (including repeat) attempts and 1.36 (0.65 to 2.50) counting only first attempts. (bmj.com)
  • The standardised incidence ratio during and up to six months after treatment was 1.78 (1.04 to 2.85) for all attempts and 1.93 (1.08 to 3.18) for first attempts. (bmj.com)
  • Three years after treatment stopped, the observed number of attempts was close to the expected number and remained so during the 15 years of follow-up: standardised incidence ratio 1.04 (0.74 to 1.43) for all attempts and 0.97 (0.64 to 1.40) for first attempts. (bmj.com)
  • We identified 364 suicide attempts with an annual incidence of 6 per 100 000 population. (who.int)
  • Charlie Angus, the member of Parliament for the region, said communities in Canada's remote north get fewer resources to respond to suicide attempts and called this winter's series of attempts a "rolling nightmare," the CBC reports. (npr.org)
  • It was a scary moment that made me reassess a lot in my life," Wu writes about her suicide attempt. (yahoo.com)
  • Twelve (38%) of 32 patients who made their first suicide attempt before treatment made a new attempt or committed suicide thereafter. (bmj.com)
  • In contrast, 10 (71%) of the 14 who made their first suicide attempt within six months after treatment stopped made a new attempt or committed suicide during follow-up (two sample test of proportions, P=0.034). (bmj.com)
  • The captured time-frame included, where possible, from the moment the person entered the station up until after the suicide attempt was made. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These video clips were randomly mixed with CCTV footage from 56 events where no future suicide attempt was made, but the observers were not told which footage they were viewing. (biomedcentral.com)
  • For 50-year-olds who had made their first suicide attempt, the reduction in life expectancy for men and women was 10 and 8 years respectively. (cision.com)
  • If the first suicide attempt was not made until the individual's 70s, the reduction in remaining life expectancy was about 4 years for both sexes. (cision.com)
  • Attempts will be made to disaggregate the data by sex and at subnational levels as appropriate. (who.int)
  • The American Association of Suicidology reports higher numbers, stating that there are 25 suicide attempts for every suicide completion. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some suicide methods have higher rates of lethality than others. (wikipedia.org)
  • The rate of past suicide attempts was much higher - 28.5% - among those identifying themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or unsure of their sexual orientation. (latimes.com)
  • Girls were much more likely than boys to attempt suicide by what is known as "self-poisoning," and suicide attempts by self-poisoning in children and teens were higher in rural communities. (homeword.com)
  • The proportion of students who reported suicide ideation and attempts increased with higher occasions of NMUPO. (cdc.gov)
  • These changes might have an impact on the phenomenon of suicide. (who.int)
  • Changes in marriage equality laws hopscotched across states that had widely disparate patterns of suicide, and of factors that are linked to suicide, such as poverty, joblessness and substance abuse. (latimes.com)
  • In short, the research suggests, the effect of state marriage equality laws passed between 1999 and 2015 extended far beyond gay men and lesbians intent on marrying: For high schoolers coming to terms with their "sexual minority" status, their state's adoption of a marriage equality law appeared to ease a stigma that drives many to consider suicide. (latimes.com)
  • More teens are attempting suicide by overdosing on drugs, and new research suggests they are often turning to over-the-counter (OTC) medications like ibuprofen and aspirin in their efforts. (homeword.com)
  • This study serves to provide an updated meta-analysis examining the extent of association of early life sexual abuse with suicide attempts. (nih.gov)
  • Professor Brian Mishara, lead author and Director of the Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide and Euthanasia at the University of Quebec in Montreal, said: "We conducted a two stage study to first, identify behaviours associated with attempted suicide and second, to test if these behaviours could be used to spot people who go on to attempt suicide with minimum false identification of people who were not going to attempt. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Several of these behaviours have the potential to be detected automatically using computer technology so our study provides ground work for research to develop novel ways to prevent suicide attempts at metro stations. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These types of suicide attempts occurred more often during the school year, the study found. (homeword.com)
  • The rates of these suicide attempts in young people aged 10 to 18 started to increase in 2011, the study found. (homeword.com)
  • Association of suicide. (bmj.com)
  • Objective To establish whether an association exists between use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and suicide attempts. (bmj.com)
  • In the time before she found out that she had MS, Blair admits that she fell into a dark hole, and says that she even attempted suicide - more than once. (heavy.com)
  • The team found that variations in the genes CLOCK and ARNTL differentiate in patients with and without a prior suicide attempt. (newswise.com)
  • Age-adjusted suicide rates in the US have increased over the past two decades across all age groups. (nature.com)
  • In the year following any state's adoption of marriage equality, rates of attempted suicide among such high schoolers in that state fell 14% below that group's rate of suicide attempts in states that had not changed their policies on gay marriage. (latimes.com)
  • Another Canadian aboriginal community in the western province of Manitoba appealed for federal aid last month, citing six suicides in two months and 140 suicide attempts in two weeks," the BBC writes . (npr.org)
  • Geno told TMZ this week that he attempted to take his own life back in September by consuming large quantities of alcohol and prescription pills. (thehollywoodgossip.com)
  • These laws were used to convict a man for attempted suicide in 2018, resulting in a three-year suspended sentence and two years of supervised probation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hurst would later go sober after his suicide attempt, and he celebrated his fourth year of sobriety last month. (aol.com)
  • Suicide is a serious public health concern in the United States resulting in over 47,000 deaths each year 1 . (nature.com)
  • The BBC notes that Canada's 1.4 million indigenous people have a lower life expectancy than other Canadians, and that Attawapiskat is not the only First Nation grappling with a high rate of suicide attempts. (npr.org)
  • The fifth suicide attempt was the one that took her life," he said. (today.com)
  • No training was given to the observers apart from an explanation of the indicating behaviours on the list and CCTV footage was only shown once to reflect what it might be like in real life for someone to spot a potential suicide attempt. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Suicide is the taking of one's own life. (medlineplus.gov)
  • A suicide attempt is when someone harms themselves to try to end their life, but they do not die. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Suicide attempts can result in serious and permanent injuries and/or disabilities. (wikipedia.org)
  • The isolated Cree community of Attawapiskat - shown several years ago, in a photo by the Toronto Star - struggled all winter with a high rate of suicide attempts. (npr.org)
  • Among all high school students surveyed, 8.6% reported they had attempted suicide at least once. (latimes.com)