Preventing suicide

Recognising mental illness in young people and dealing with it appropriately could help prevent suicides. Agerbo and colleagues (p 74) found that suicide is more likely among young people if a parent commits suicide or there is a history of mental illness in the individual and their siblings. Dysfunctional family backgrounds and socioeconomic adversity seem to be less important risk factors. Preventive strategies, the authors say, should therefore be aimed at the early recognition and optimal treatment of mental illnesses.
 
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Familial, psychiatric, and socioeconomic risk factors for suicide in young people: nested case-control study
Esben Agerbo, Merete Nordentoft, and Preben Bo Mortensen
BMJ 2002 325: 74. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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