A Suicide Epidemic in a Psychiatric Hospital

Taiminen, Tero; Salmenperä, Tuuli; Lehtinen, Klaus

doi:10.1111/j.1943-278x.1992.tb00740.x

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“…Suicide clusters have been reported in diverse populations and settings including psychiatric inpatients (11,12), teenagers and young adults (8,(13)(14)(15), schools (16)(17)(18), prison inmates (19,20), and American Indian and Native American communities (21)(22)(23)(24)(25). The two most commonly reported types of suicide clusters are point clusters and mass clusters.…”

Section: Overview and Types Of Suicide Clustersmentioning

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Background and Rationale — CDC Guidance for Communities Assessing, Investigating, and Responding to Suicide Clusters, United States, 2024

Ballesteros,

Ivey-Stephenson,

Trinh

et al. 2024

MMWR Suppl.

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Summary To assist community leaders in public health, mental health, education, and other fields with developing a community response plan for suicide clusters or for situations that might develop into suicide clusters, in 1988, CDC published Recommendations for a Community Plan for the Prevention and Containment of Suicide Clusters (MMWR Suppl 1988;37[No. Suppl 6]:1–12). Since that time, the reporting and investigation of suicide cluster events has increased, and more is known about cluster risk factors, assessment, and identification. This supplement updates and expands CDC guidance for assessing, investigating, and responding to suicide clusters based on current science and public health practice. This report is the first of three in the MMWR supplement that describes an overview of suicide clusters, information about the other reports in this supplement, methods used to develop the supplement guidance, and the intended use of the supplement reports. The second report, CDC Guidance for Community Assessment and Investigation of Suspected Suicide Clusters — United States 2024 , describes the potential methods, data sources and analysis that communities can use to identify and confirm suspected suicide clusters, and better understand the relevant issues. The final report, CDC Guidance for Community Response to Suicide Clusters — United States, 2024 , describes how local public health and community leaders can develop a response plan for suicide clusters. The guidance in this supplement is intended as a conceptual framework that can be used by public health practitioners and state and local health departments to develop response plans for assessing and investigating suspected clusters that are tailored to the needs, resources, and cultural characteristics of their communities.

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Section: Overview and Types Of Suicide Clustersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Background and Rationale — CDC Guidance for Communities Assessing, Investigating, and Responding to Suicide Clusters, United States, 2024

Ballesteros,

Ivey-Stephenson,

Trinh

et al. 2024

MMWR Suppl.

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Media Influences on Suicide and Attempted Suicide

Pirkis

Nordentoft

2011

International Handbook of Suicide Prevention

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Peer Influence and Nonsuicidal Self Injury: Longitudinal Results in Community and Clinically-Referred Adolescent Samples

Prinstein

Heilbron

Guerry

et al. 2010

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Research suggests that adolescents' engagement in nonsuicidal self-injurious (NSSI) behaviors may be increasing over time, yet little is known regarding distal longitudinal factors that may promote engagement in these behaviors. Data from two longitudinal studies are presented to examine whether NSSI may be associated with peer influence processes. Study 1 included 377 adolescents from a community-based sample; Study 2 included 140 clinically-referred adolescents recruited from a psychiatric inpatient facility. In Study 1, adolescents' NSSI was examined at baseline and one year later. Adolescents' nominated best friend reported their own levels of NSSI. In Study 2, adolescents' NSSI was examined at baseline as well as 9 and 18-months post-baseline. Adolescents' perceptions of their friends' engagement in self-injurious behavior (including suicidality) and depressed mood also were examined at all three time points. Baseline depressive symptoms were measured in both studies; gender and age were examined as moderators of peer influence effects. Results from both studies supported longitudinal peer socialization effects of friends' self-injurious behavior on adolescents' own NSSI for girls, but not for boys, even after controlling for depressive symptoms as a predictor. Study 1 suggested socialization effects mostly for younger youth. Results from Study 2 also suggested longitudinal socialization effects, as well as peer selection effects; adolescents' NSSI was associated with increasing perceptions of their friends' engagement in depressive/self-injurious thoughts and behavior. Findings contribute to the nascent literature on longitudinal predictors of NSSI and to work on peer influence.

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A Suicide Epidemic in a Psychiatric Hospital

Cited by 25 publications

References 24 publications

Background and Rationale — CDC Guidance for Communities Assessing, Investigating, and Responding to Suicide Clusters, United States, 2024

Background and Rationale — CDC Guidance for Communities Assessing, Investigating, and Responding to Suicide Clusters, United States, 2024

Media Influences on Suicide and Attempted Suicide

Peer Influence and Nonsuicidal Self Injury: Longitudinal Results in Community and Clinically-Referred Adolescent Samples

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