Author: Stenager, Elsebeth Nylev
Title: Attempted Suicide Treatment and Outcome. A Clinical Psychiatric Study
Description: Odense, Odense University Press, 1996. orig.wrappers. 25x17cm, 145 pp. Textual grpahs & tables.. Minor rubbing. Large rubberstamp to half-title. VG. ¶ Contents: Background and description of the WHO project; Review of the literature; Epidemiology; Primary prevention; Studies on prediction; Secondary prevention; Prognosis studies; Problems and purposes; Material and method: The design of the study; Selection of patients for the interview investigation; Registration of patients for interview investigation; Contents of Index Interview; Contents of Follow-up Interview; Bias problems; Selection bias; Information bias; Interviewer bias; Ethical problems; Data processing; Analyses strategy; Referrals and selection problems; interview; Follow-up interview; Results: Referrals and selection; Index interview; Description of the study population; Differences by sex; Differences by age; Previous suicidal behaviour; Treatment possibilities; Follow-up interview; Changes in the patients' condition; Predictors of poor outcome; Discussion: Referrals and selection;Index interview; Follow-up interview; Changes in level of functioning; Predictors of repeating suicide attempts; Choice of outcome indicators; Predictors of poor outcome; Association between various outcome measures/ congruence between predictors; Correlation between treatment and outcome; Identification of vulnerable/ non vulnerable droups.

Keywords: Clinical Psychiatry, Attempted Suicide, Parasuicide, , , , , ,