Attempted Suicide
Correlates of Increasing Medical Lethality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13676361 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Lester (0000-0003-1357-8672, Philadelphia General Hospital, corresponding author), Aaron T Beck (0000-0001-6210-9528, Philadelphia General Hospital) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3_suppl |
| Pages | 1236-1238 |
| Publication date | 1975-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1975.37.3f.1236 |
| PMID | 1208746 |
| OpenAlex | W2087036945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Ratings of medical lethality of 145 suicide attempts with coma-producing drugs were unrelated to the personal characteristics of the suicide attempter, the precipitating circumstances, and most of the circumstances of the suicidal act. The ratings of medical lethality did, however, appear to have some validity. As the suicide attempter might incorrectly predict the lethality of his planned suicide attempt, his self-report of intent may be more useful for classification of his behavior than the actual lethality of his suicidal action. It was not possible to form reasonable hypotheses about the characteristics of completers of suicide from the characteristics of three groups of attempters of suicide of differing medical lethality
Injury prevention · Lethality · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Psychiatry · Suicide methods · Suicide prevention · Suicide rates · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Poisoning and overdose treatments · Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies · Toxicology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 1976 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |