Aim: Suicide victims have various distresses or motives. There are few studies on how these motives toward suicide relate with each other. We used network analyses to extract the structures of correlations among the motives for suicide.
Methods:We obtained datasets of suicide victims from [2007][2008][2009] in Japan in cooperation with Ibaraki Prefectural Police Headquarters. The data were analyzed by network centrality measures and a structural analysis by block modeling.Results: Among the motives, depression and physical illness showed relatively high scores of 'degree centrality', whereas depression and unemployment showed relatively high scores of 'betweenness centrality'. Structural analysis by block modeling resulted in eight blocks. The most important block comprised eight motives, including conflict between parent and child, marital conflict, economic hardship, and overloaded with debt.
Conclusion:Depression and physical illness were important and priority areas for completed suicides, although these two motives had different influences on suicide behaviors. Furthermore, structural analysis revealed the important role of a block, including some familial and financial motives, which induced hopelessness. Our results suggest that it might be useful to consider the common ways in which motivations for suicide are tied together when suicide intervention is launched from a social model point of view.
We herein report a case of gastrointestinal (GI) Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) without cutaneous involvement in a 73-year-old man who had received immunosuppressive drugs for granulomatosis with polyangiitis. After one year of prednisolone use, he presented with tarry stool and severe anemia. Endoscopic and pathological examinations revealed bright-reddish protruding lesions with proliferating spindle cells positive for D2-40, CD34, and HHV-8, which are definitively diagnostic of GI-KS. Drug-induced KS without HIV infection or transplantation is extremely rare, and its clinical features remain unknown. Therefore, we conducted a literature review of steroid-induced KS.
Hydrogen desorption behavior in 6061 and 7075 aluminum alloys was studied by means of thermal desorption analysis using a semiconductor hydrogen sensor in the gas chromatograph. Effect of high strain rate deformation (10 5 s 1) on the hydrogen trapping state in the alloys was examined in particular. It was found that hydrogen atoms were released at lower temperatures when both alloys were plastically deformed. The tendency was more obvious in the 6061 alloys deformed with a high strain rate. In comparison with the previous reports, the difference of the hydrogen desorption behavior in the case between high speed and low speed deformation would be related to the difference of the hydrogen trapping effects by the different type of lattice defects.
Aims: We aimed to investigate the association between general mental health and attitudes toward suicide of participants in suicide-prevention gatekeeper training programs. Methods: We conducted a number of half day training seminars within a suicide prevention program addressing gatekeepers. Participants filled in two questionnaires, one measuring general health (General Health Questionnaire, GHQ-12), and one measuring attitudes towards suicide (ATTS). Results: The total sample size of participants was 230, of whom 115 completed questionnaires. There were no significant differences in demographic backgrounds between the good mental health (GHQ-12≤4) and the poor mental health (GHQ-12≥5) groups. The poor mental health group was more likely to think that people have the right to commit suicide. Conclusion: There was a difference in attitudes toward suicide between the good mental health and the poor mental health groups, indicating that attention should be paid to participants' mental health when conducting suicide-prevention gatekeeper training.
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