title: Do suicides' characteristics influence survivors' emotions?
abstract: The suicide of a related person can often induce severe negative emotional reactions. The objective of this study was to explore the relationships between sociodemographic and diagnostic data of suicides and survivors' emotions and to close this substantial gap. The main outcome of this study was that survivors' severity of emotional disturbance was inversely correlated with age of suicides. In the multivariable approach, only age remained related to the majority of the assessed survivors' emotions, whereas other characteristics, such as gender, presence of psychiatric disorder, or suicide method were not associated with survivors' emotions. Age had a dominant impact on the relationship between suicides' characteristics and survivors' emotional reactions and supersedes the effect of most suicides' characteristics including diagnoses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Center of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychotherapy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. B.Schneider@em.uni-frankfurt.de
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Grebner
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schnabel
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Georgi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000786:Anger; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016017:Odds Ratio; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*