Thoughts of death or suicide and suicidal plans or attempts are criteria for major depressive disorder in the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
It consists of questions tapping suicidal plans, previous suicide attempts, and current suicidal intentions.
A few informants had experienced that such patients had had serious suicidal plans and committed suicide shortly after the consultation.
One-quarter of the men reported thinking that it would be better to be dead, without having suicidal plans (a low suicidality score).
Here, the diagnosis Suicidal Behavior Disorder (SBD) does not include either suicidal ideation or suicidal plans, but only suicide attempts [ 16].
Risk factors for different degrees of suicidal ideation range from having ideas on own death to making suicidal plans and attempting suicide [ 6].
The patient agrees to undergo no other psychological treatment when joining the study (Patients are asked for report, if they do so later on while taking part in the study. In this case, this patients' data would be excluded from evaluation). 1 The patient has active suicidal plans (according to the suicide item of the BDI or the diagnostic telephone interview).
Among teen suicidal ideators, physical illness was significantly associated with suicidal plans, while parental divorce was associated with suicide attempts.
Among individuals who harbour suicidal plans, the probability of actually undertaking a suicide attempt was, according to Scocco (2008), nearly 50percentt [ 3].
In the general population it has been shown that 34% of people with ideas develop suicidal plans, and that these plans lead to suicide attempts in 72% of cases.
A study by Harris et al shows that individuals at suicide-risk who frequently search for suicide-related material on the internet score high on nearly all measured suicide-risk variables, including suicidal behaviour, suicidal ideation, suicidal plans, living alone, lower education, unemployment and a history of psychiatric diagnosis.
