title: Age and parasuicide ('attempted suicide').
abstract: A one-year cohort of parasuicide patients (n = 882) was divided into three age groups, subdivided by sex where indicated. Systematic comparisons of the groups were made, and significant discrepancies validated using a second cohort of patients. A number of social, demographic and clinical differences were found, as well as some unexpected similarities. The rates for subsequent (completed) suicide were conspicuously different in the six age-sex subgroups.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000359:Aftercare; D000367:Age Factors; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications; D001463:Barbiturates / Q000506:poisoning; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000150:complications; D011041:Poisoning / Q000453:epidemiology; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000506:poisoning; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior; D012737:Sex Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications; D013405:Suicide; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000453:epidemiology*
chemical_list: D001463:Barbiturates; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs