title: Young male suicide attempters 20 years later: the suicide mortality rate.
abstract: In a 20-year, register-based follow-up of a group of 51 young male conscripts who had made a suicide attempt during their service, 2 were found to have committed suicide during the follow-up period. These figures gave a 20-year accumulated suicide mortality of 3.92%, whereas the corresponding value in the cohort of Norwegian males who reached the age of 20 in the period 1968-1972 was 0.40%. In spite of this clear difference, the study indicates that the long-term suicide mortality is relatively low for young suicide-attempters in this type of setting compared to figures from other follow-up studies.
authors.affiliation: HQ Defence Command Norway, Joint Medical Service, Medical Division, Oslo.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mehlum
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel; D009026:Mortality; D009664:Norway; D012306:Risk; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D013997:Time Factors