...Sumant Kumar; Avanish Bhai Patel; Barsa Priyadarsinee Sahoo Purpose Suicide among women in India is a significant public health issue, with over 45,000 women suicides reported in 2021. In the year 2016, India accounted for 36% of global women’s suicide deaths. Suicide is the leading cause of death...

...Murad Younis; Mo’tasem AlDaieflih; Jawad A. Ahmad Abu Shennar; Ahmad Miqdadi; Farah M. Abdallah; Mohannad Aldiqs; Bushra Alhusamiah Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of sociodemographic variables on childhood adversity, suicide and severity of positive symptoms among patients...

...Syahrul Anuar Ali; Mohd Zaidi Md Zabri; Mohd Hafiz Mohd Dasar; Muhammad Farhan Nordin Purpose This paper aims to investigate the associations between financial debt burden and suicidal behaviours (suicidal ideation, suicidal attempts, death by suicide and attempts or death by suicide). In addition...

...David Lester Purpose The main aim of this paper is to try and understand why our knowledge of why people take their own lives is so limited. Design/methodology/approach Methodological problems that have hindered our efforts to understand why people die by suicide are reviewed. Two solutions...

...Mo’tasem M. Aldaieflih; Rabia H. Haddad; Ayman M. Hamdan-Mansour Purpose This study aims to examine the predictive power of childhood adversity and severity of positive symptoms on suicidality, controlling for selected sociodemographics factors, among hospitalized patients diagnosed...

...-by-suicide trends, more education and training are needed to help this specialised group. Social implications The suicide rates for sexual minority conversion therapy victims are eight times higher than those of other sexual minority groups and isolation levels. A single point of entry pathway...

...Angela Woods Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer an opinion piece that documents the experience of losing an adult sibling to suicide and explores the experience of personal and family grief. Design/methodology/approach This narrative is written from an autoethnographic perspective...

...Avanish Bhai Patel Purpose The death of a person caused by suicide is a matter of grave concern in contemporary society. Today, a number of people in society are taking their own lives because of many reasons. This study aims to examine the causes of suicide in Indian society using anomie theory...

... include sleeping in air raid shelter from 1942 to 1945 in London (UK), while his style includes obsessiveness in reading everything on suicide, applying ideas from other fields (such as economics) to the study of suicide and obtaining academic freedom early in his career. Originality/value The essay...

... person’s lived experience. Practical implications Suicide is the greatest danger for anyone with a long-term mental health problem. Rob has faced this decision many times and has courageously battled on. Social implications Rachel’s simple, yet profound mantra, of “someone to love, something to do...

... to try and hang myself. Luckily, I was found by the staff and rescued from the situation. Initially, this made me feel even worse, and I continued to have suicidal thoughts, and I would take any opportunity to hurt myself or try to kill myself. The illness was now winning. So this became my...

...Suzanne Rogerson; Jerome Carson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a profile of Suzanne Rogerson. Design/methodology/approach Suzanne provides a short summary of her life and is then interviewed by Jerome. Findings Suzanne tells us about the suicide of her father and how...

...Eoin Galavan; Julie Repper Purpose The collaborative assessment and management of suicide (CAMS) is an evidenced-based therapeutic framework designed to facilitate a co-authored and collaborative approach to addressing suicidality (Jobes, 2009). The collaborative nature of this approach...

... battle with and how they have overcome these. Jerome Carson is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: J.Carson@bolton.ac.uk © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Suicide Trust Recovery Depression Domestic abuse I...