title: Is suicide predictable?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  THE CURRENT STUDY AIMED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS: Is suicide predictable? And try to classify the predictive factors in multiple suicide attempts.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study was administered to 223 multiple attempters, women who came to a medical poison centre after a suicide attempt. The participants were young, poor, and single. A Logistic Regression Analiysis was used to classify the predictive factors of suicide.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Women who had multiple suicide attempts exhibited a significant tendency to attempt suicide again. They had a history for more than two years of multiple suicide attempts, from three to as many as 18 times, plus mental illnesses such as depression and substance abuse. They also had a positive history of mental illnesses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results indicate that contributing factors for another suicide attempt include previous suicide attempts, mental illness (depression), or a positive history of mental illnesses in the family affecting them at a young age, and substance abuse.
authors.affiliation: Dept., of Clinical Psychology, Shahid Beheshti Medical University, Tehran, Iran ; Centre of Addiction Sciences (UMCAS) Malaysia, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Seghatoleslam
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Habi
authors.forename: R Abdul
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Rashid
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mosavi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Asmaee
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Naseri
keywords: Iran; Multiple suicide attempts; Prediction; WSPFQ; Women