Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-fbnjt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T07:14:43.810Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Some perspectives on suicidal behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Unni Bille-Brahe
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Objective - To try and specify questions of special relevance for suicidological research. Methods - Discussing the merits of questions pertaining to epidemiology and various theories on suicidal behaviour. Results - Four types of questions are defined: How many persons show suicidal behaviour? Who are they? Why do they do it? and What can we do about it? Answers to the first three questions are required when approaching question four: What can we do about it? Conclusion - The complex patterns and backgrounds of suicidal behaviour call for interdisciplinarity and for an increase in both multifactorial and process-related approaches as well as practicable, evidence-based and feasible intervention efforts.

Riassunto

Scopo - Esaminare e precisare alcune domande di particolare rilevanza per la ricerca sul suicidio. Metodi - Discussione nel merito delle domande riguardanti l'epidemiologia e le varie teorie sul comportamento suicidario. Risultati - Sono state definiti quattro tipi di domande: come molte persone manifestano un comportamento suicidario? Chi sono? Perche' lo fanno? E che cosa possiamo fare riguardo a ciò? Le risposte alle prime tre domande sono indispensabili per afffrontare la quarta domanda: cosa possiamo fare. Conclusioni - I complessi modelli ed il retroterra che stanno alia base del comportamento suicidario richiedono interdisciplinarietà ed uno sviluppo sia dell'approccio multifattoriale sia di quello legato al processo, oltre uno sviluppo degli sforzi evidence-based e realizzabili.

Keywords

suicideepidemiologypreventionsuicidioepidemiologiaprevenzione.
Type
Invited Papers
Information
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2000 , pp. 93 - 98
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bibliografia

Beskow, J., Kerkhof, A., Kokkola, A. & Uutela, A. (1999). Suicide Prevention in Finland 1986-1996. External Evaluation by an International Peer Group. Ministry of Social Affairs and Health: Helsinki.Google Scholar
Bille-Brahe, U. (1998). Suicidal Behaviour in Europe. The Situation in the 1990s. WHO Regional Office for Europe: Copenhagen.Google Scholar
Bille-Brahe, U., Kerkhof, A., De Leo, D., Schmidtke, A., Crepet, P., Lonn-qvist, J., Michel, K., Salander-Renberg, E., Stiles, T.C., Wasserman, D. & Egebo, H. (1996). A repetition-prediction study on European parasuicide populations. Part II of the WHO/Euro Multicentre Study on Parasuicide in cooperation with the EC Concerted Action on Attempted Suicide. Crisis 17, 22–31.Google Scholar
Kerkhof, A.J.F.M., Schmidtke, A., Bille-Brahe, U., De Leo, D. & Lonn-qvist, J. (1994). Attempted Suicide in Europe. Findings from the Multicentre Study on Parasuicide by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. DSWO: Leiden.Google Scholar
Michel, K. & Valach, L., (1997). Suicide as goal-directed behaviour. Archives of Suicide Research 3, 213–221.Google Scholar
Moksony, F. (1994). The whole, its parts and the level of analysis: Durkheim and the macro-sociological study on suicide. In Emile Durkheim. Le Suicide – 100 Years Later(ed. Lester, D.). Charles Press: Philadelphia.Google Scholar
Schmidtke, A., Bille-Brahe, U., DeLeo, D., Kerkhof, A., Bjerke, T., Cre-pet, P., Haring, C., Hawton, K., Lonnqvist, J., Michel, K., Pomme-reau, X., Querejeta, I., Phillipe, I., Salander-Renberg, E., Temesvary, B., Wasserman, D., Fricke, S., Weinacker, B. & Sampaio-Faria, J.G. (1996). Attempted suicide in Europe: rates, trends and sociodemographic characterisics of suicide attempters during the period 1989-1992. Results of the WHO/Euro Multicentre Study on Parasuicide. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 93, 327–338.Google Scholar
Schmidtke, A., Bille-Brahe, U., DeLeo, D., Kerkhof, A., Bjerke, T., Crepet, P., Haring, C., Hawton, K., Lönnqvist, J., Michel, K. et al. (1998). Sta-tus on the Monitoring Part of the WHO/Euro Multicentre Study on Parasuicide. Report presented at WHO Technical Meeting: Rennes.Google Scholar
UN & WHO (1996). Prevention of Suicide. Guidelines for the For-mulation and Implementation of National Strategies. United Na-tions: New York.Google Scholar