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  • Who Seeks Treatment Where? Suicidal Behaviors and Health Care: Evidence From a Community Survey

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    Milner, Allison
    De Leo, Diego
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    De Leo, Diego
    Milner, Allison J.
    Year published
    2010
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    Abstract
    The reason why some persons seek help following a suicide attempt while others do not is still insufficiently clarified. Using data from the World Health Organization/SUicide PREvention-Multisite Intervention Study on Suicidal Behavior community survey, this study tried to shed more light on this problem by investigating the type and number of treatments sought by suicide attempters in 2 major cities of Queensland, Australia. Compared with those who did not attend services (n = 142), help-seekers (n = 257) had significantly greater odds of overdosing with medications and communicating suicidal thoughts. They also had greater ...
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    The reason why some persons seek help following a suicide attempt while others do not is still insufficiently clarified. Using data from the World Health Organization/SUicide PREvention-Multisite Intervention Study on Suicidal Behavior community survey, this study tried to shed more light on this problem by investigating the type and number of treatments sought by suicide attempters in 2 major cities of Queensland, Australia. Compared with those who did not attend services (n = 142), help-seekers (n = 257) had significantly greater odds of overdosing with medications and communicating suicidal thoughts. They also had greater odds of reporting a history of psychological problems, previous attempts, and help-seeking behavior. Those who sought multiple services were more likely to be female and suffer also from physical illness. Non help-seekers were more frequently males, with no history of having previously sought help or communicated intent. They also appeared at greater risk of using more lethal methods (hanging) and less likely to express mental health concerns at the time of the attempt. These findings underline the need to further understand the relationship between lethality, suicide intent, and help-seeking behavior. Improving motivation to seek treatment after a suicide attempt could substantially impact on suicide prevention success efforts.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
    Volume
    198
    Issue
    6
    Publisher URI
    https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Fulltext/2010/06000/Who_Seeks_Treatment_Where__Suicidal_Behaviors_and.5.aspx
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181e07905
    Copyright Statement
    © 2010 LWW. This is a non-final version of an article published in final form in Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Volume 198 - Issue 6 - pp 412-419. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal link for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Clinical sciences
    Clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
    Cognitive and computational psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/35296
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