Suicide attempt Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Repetition == A nonfatal suicide attempt is the strongest known clinical predictor of eventual suicide.<ref>Harris EC, Barraclough B: Suicide as an outcome for mental disorders: a meta-analysis. Br J Psychiatry 1997; 170:205β228</ref> Suicide risk among self-harm patients is hundreds of times higher than in the general population.<ref>Owens D, Horrocks J, House A: Fatal and non-fatal repetition of self-harm: systematic review. Br J Psychiatry 2002; 181:193β199</ref> It is often estimated that about 10β15% of people who attempt suicide eventually die by suicide.<ref>Suominen et al. (2004). Completed Suicide After a Suicide Attempt: A 37-Year Follow-Up Study. Am J Psychiatry, 161, 563β564.</ref> The mortality risk is highest during the first months and years after the attempt: almost 1% of individuals who attempt suicide will die by suicide if the attempt is repeated within one year.<ref>Hawton K, Catalan J. Attempted suicide: a practical guide to its nature and management, 2nd ed. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987.</ref> Recent meta-analytic evidence suggests that the association between suicide attempt and suicidal death may not be as strong as it was thought before.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ribeiro |first1=JD |last2=Franklin |first2=JC |last3=Fox |first3=KR |last4=Bentley |first4=KH |last5=Kleiman |first5=EM |last6=Chang |first6=BP |last7=Nock |first7=MK | date=2016 |title=Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors as risk factors for future suicide ideation, attempts, and death: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies |journal=Psychological Medicine |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=225β236 |doi=10.1017/S0033291715001804 |pmid=26370729|pmc=4774896 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page