(General) - Completed Suicide, Demographics

(See hot-link to CDC web page:  Most Recent Suicide Statistics: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web Site on Injury Mortality)

Canetto S. S & Lester, D. (Eds.) (1995).  Women and Suicidal Behavior.  New York: Springer

Conwell, Y., Duberstein, P.R., Cox, C., Herrmann, J., Forbes, N., & Caine, E.D. (1998). Age differences in behaviors leading to completed suicide. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 6(2),122-6.

Hawton, K., & Fagg, J. (1988).  Suicide, and other causes of death, following attempted suicide.  British Journal of Psychiatry, 152, 359-366.

Kaplan, M. S., & Geling, O. (1998).  Firearm suicides and homicides in the United States: Regional variations and patterns of gun ownership.  Social Science and Medicine, 46,1227-1233.

Mościcki, E.K. (1999).  Epidemiology of suicide.  In  D. Jacobs (ed.), The Harvard Medical School guide to suicide assessment and intervention (pp. 40-71).  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass.

Rich, C. L., Young, D., & Fowler, R. C. (1986).  San Diego suicide study: I. Young vs. Old subjects.  Archives of General Psychiatry. 43, 577-582.

(Children/Adolescents) - Completed Suicide, Demographics

Brent, DA, Baugher, M, Bridge, J, Chen, T., Chiappetta, L.  Age- and sex-related risk factors for adolescent suicide. (1999).  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 38 (12), 1497-1505

Grøholt, B., Ekeberg, Ø., Wichstrøm, L., & Haldorsen, T. (1998).  Suicide among children and younger adolescents in Norway:  A comparative study.  Journal of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 37, 473-481.

McKeown, R. E., Garrison, C. Z., Cuffe, S. P., Waller, J. L., Jackson, K. L., & Addy, C. L. (1998).  Incidence and predictors of suicidal behaviors in a longitudinal sample of young adolescents.  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 37, 612-619.

Shaffer, D., Gould, M., Fisher, P., Trautman, P., Moreau, D., Kleinman, M., & Flory, M. (1996).

Psychiatric diagnosis in child and adolescent suicide.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 53, 339-348.

Shaffi, M., Carrigen, S., Whittinghill, J. R, & Derrick, A. (1985).  Psychological autopsy of completed suicide in children and adolescents.  American Journal of Psychiatry, 142, 1061-1064.

(Elderly) - Completed Suicide, Demographics

Conwell, Y., Duberstein, P. R., Cox, C., Herrmann, J., Forbes, N., & Caine, E. D. (1998) Age differences in behaviors leading to completed suicide.  American Journal of  Geriatric Psychiatry, 6(2), 122-126

Conwell, Y. (1994).  Suicide in elderly patients.  In L. S. Schneider, C. F. Reynolds, B. D. Lebowitz, & A. J. Friedhoff (Eds.), Diagnosis and treatment of depression in late life (pp. 397-418). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

Manton, K.G., Blazer, D.G., & Woodbury, M. A. (1987). Suicide in middle age and later life: Sex and race specific life table and cohort analyses. Journal of Gerontology, 42, 219-227.

(Special Populations) - Completed Suicide, Demographics

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1998). Suicide among Black Youths–United States,

1980-1995. MMWR, 47(10), 193-196.

Duclos, C. W. & Manson, S. M. (Eds.) (1993). Calling From the Rim: Suicidal Behavior Among American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents. Denver, Colorado: The National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research.

Gibbs, J. T. (1997).  African-American suicide:  A cultural paradox.  Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 27, 68-79.

Indian Health Service (1996).  Trends in Indian Health- 1996. See also Regional Differences in Indian Health- 1996.  Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Legislation, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services.  Both available at http://www.ihs.gov/

Kettl, P. A., & Bixler, E. O.  (1991).  Suicide in Alaskan natives.  Psychiatry, 54, 55-63.

Marzuk, P. M., Tardiff, K., Leon, A. C., Hirsch, C. S., Hartwell, N., Portera, L., & Iqbal, M. I. (1997). HIV seroprevalence among suicide victims in New York City, 1991-1993. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154(12),1720-25.

Shaffer, D., Gould, M., & Hicks, R. C. (1994).  Worsening suicide rate in black teenagers. American Journal of Psychiatry, 151(12), 1810-1812

(Psychiatric Comorbidity) - Completed Suicide, Demographics

Busch, K. A., Clark, D. C., Fawcett, J., & Kravitz, H. M. (1993).  Clinical features of inpatient suicide.  Psychiatric Annals, 23, 256-262.

Conwell, Y., & Brent, D. (1995).  Suicide and aging I: Patterns of psychiatric diagnosis.  International Psychogeriatrics, 7, 149-164

Conwell, Y., Duberstein, P. R., Cox, C., Herrmann, J. H., Forbes, N. T., & Caine, E. D. (1996). Relationships of age and Axis I diagnoses in victims of completed suicide: A psychological autopsy study.  American Journal of Psychiatry, 153, 1001-1008. 

Duberstein, P. R., & Conwell, Y. (1997).  Personality disorders and completed suicide:  A methodological and conceptual review.  Clinical Psychology:  Science and Practice, 4, 359-376.

Egland, J. A., Sussex, J. N. (1985).  Suicide and family loading for affective disorders.  Journal of the American Medical Association, 254, 915-918.

Isometsa, H. H., Henriksson, M. M., Heikkinen, M. E., Marttunen, M. J., & Lonnqvist, J. K. (1998). Antecedents of suicide in people with schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 173, 330-3.

Klerman, G. L. (1987).  Clinical epidemiology of suicide. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 48(Suppl.),

33-38.

Martunnen, M. J., Aro, H. M., Henriksson, M. M. & Lönnqvist, J. K. (1991). Mental disorders in adolescent suicide DSM-III-R axes I and II diagnoses in suicides among 13-to 19-year-olds in Finland. Archives of General Psychiatry, 48, 834-839.

Rich, C., Fowler, R., Fogarty, L. A., & Young, D. (1988a).  Suicide study III. Relationships between diagnoses and stressors.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 45, 589-592.

Runeson, B. S. (1990).  Mental disorder in youth suicide DSM-III-R axes I and II.  Acta Psychiatric

Scandinavica, 79, 490-497.

Shaffer, D., Gould, M., Fisher, P., Trautman, P., Moreau, D., Kleinman, M., & Flory, M. (1996).

Psychiatric diagnosis in child and adolescent suicide.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 53, 339-348.