Search for dissertations about: "attitudes to suicide"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words attitudes to suicide.

2. 1. On suicide in European countries : some theoretical, legal and historical views on suicide mortality and its concomitants

   Author : Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen; Stephen Platt; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; assisted suicide; comparative studies; cross-sectional studies; culture; Durkheim; Europe; history; law; modernization; Parsons; suicide; suicide rates; Sweden; theories; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : The theme of this thesis is suicide mortality in its various aspects, seen from an international, European perspective. It questions the existence of social (structural) concomitants to suicide mortality and investigates attitudes towards and legislation concerning suicide, as well as some historical processes pertaining to their development. READ MORE

4. 2. Attempted suicide : studies of attitudes and psychiatric care

   Author : Mats Samuelsson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Suicide; attempted suicide; suicide risk; attitudes; psychiatric nursing; work-environment; patient satisfaction.;

   Abstract : Suicide risk among patients referred to psychiatric care after attempted suicide, attitudes of nursing personnel towards suicidal patients and the impact of a training program in suicidology for psychiatric nursing personnel were studied in the present work. Furthermore, the patients perspective on psychiatric care given to them after a suicide attempt as well as work environment, suicidal feelings and attempted suicide among psychiatric nursing personnel were investigated. READ MORE

5. 3. Attitudes, cognition, and functional disability in individuals with self-harm and psychiatric disorders

   Author : Magnus Nilsson; Lund Psykiatri; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Deliberate self-harm; non-suicidal self-injury; attitudes; adverse childhood experiences; stigma; executive functions; ; stigma; Executive functions; functional disability; self-hatred;

   Abstract : Title: Attitudes, cognition, and functional disability in individuals with self-harm and psychiatric disorders.Background: Self-harm is common and is associated with stigma and an increased risk for suicide attempts. There is a lack of knowledge about this behaviour, especially in clinical samples. READ MORE

6. 4. Heaven can wait : studies on suicidal behaviour among young people in Nicaragua

   Author : Andrés Herrera Rodríguez; Gunnar Kullgren; Ellinor Salander Renberg; Wolfgang Rutz; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; suicide attempts; suicidal expressions; attitudes towards suicide; young people; Nicaragua; Psychiatry; Psykiatri;

   Abstract : In developed countries, suicidal behaviour is recognised as a significant public health problem among young people, but there are few studies from developing countries on this subject. The present thesis aims at estimating the extent of the problem and at exploring factors related to suicidal behaviour among young people in a developing country, Nicaragua, using a combined quantitative and qualitative approach. READ MORE

7. 5. To leave it all behind : factors behind parasuicide roads towards stability

   Author : Stig Söderberg; Bo Runeson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : parasuicide; motives; life events; childhood sexual abuse; borderline personality disorder; psykiatri; Psychiatry;

   Abstract : This study was motivated by encounters with persons with repeated suicidality in clinical psychiatry. Their suicide attempts are frequently regarded as manipulative, and the patients are often labelled a “borderline personality disorder”. READ MORE