A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis on the Living History of Survivors From Charcoal-burning Suicide

Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Suicide

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02068534

102122-F

Details and patient eligibility

About

The current study aims to explore the risk factors, protective factors, resilient factors, and factors jeopardizing the recovery progress on survivors from charcoal-burning suicide. To this end, an in-depth individual interview and Mini-Mental State Examination(MMSE) will be used to acquire the first-hand information on the attempters. As well, a more comprehensive neuropsychological test, WAIS III, will be administered at 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month after the index suicide attempt.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• above 20 years old, survivors from charcoal-burning suicide.

Exclusion criteria

• under 20 years old
• survivors from other kind of suicide
• prisoner
• suffer from a serious illness
• foreigner/ can't speak Chinese
• the people who can't express themselves
• can not be interviewed in FEMH
• people with severe physical or psychological symptoms

Trial design

20 participants in 1 patient group

survivors from charcoal-burning suicide

Description:

survivors from charcoal-burning suicide and at least above 20 years old.