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Determine the prevalence and characteristics of suicidal thoughts and feelings in the general population, distinguishing them from attempted and completed suicide.

May 1, 1974The British Journal of Psychiatry

Suicidal Feelings in the General Population: A Prevalence Study

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EPEugene S. PaykelCouncil of Economic Advisers JMJ. K. MyersLeeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust JLJacob Jay LindenthalRutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Prevalence study investigates suicidal feelings across the general population, highlighting that suicidal thoughts, attempts, and completed suicide represent distinct phenomena.

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Determine the prevalence and characteristics of suicidal thoughts and feelings in the general population, distinguishing them from attempted and completed suicide.
Epidemiological assessment evaluating feelings that life is not worth living and explicit thoughts of suicide within non-clinical community samples.
Conceptual delineation of suicidal phenomena to distinguish emotional distress from suicidal actions.
Identifies a marked scarcity of epidemiological data addressing suicidal ideation in the general public despite extensive historical documentation of completed suicides.
Establishes that suicidal phenomena are heterogeneous, demonstrating that suicidal feelings cannot be directly equated with or predicted by statistics on attempted or completed suicide.

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Paykel et al. (1974) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dabaab78a3e0e2886841ff https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.124.5.460

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Prevalence study investigates suicidal feelings across the general population, highlighting that suicidal thoughts, attempts, and completed suicide represent distinct phenomena.

Suicidal Feelings in the General Population: A Prevalence Study

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Suicidal Feelings in the General Population: A Prevalence Study

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