Suicide among adolescents in 2017: an in-depth study of the background and precipating factors of the 81 suicides among adolescents aged 10 to 20 years old in the Netherlands

Completed

Conditions: suicide and self-murder
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Registration Number: NL-OMON48474

Lead Sponsor: 113 Zelfmoordpreventie

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

Parents / primary caregivers who had a child aged 10 to 20 years old living in
the Netherlands died in 2017, and a coroner concluded that suicide was
committed.
* Brothers / sisters and / or friends / girlfriends who knew this deceased
person well and for whom the legal representatives gave permission for
participation
* Involved teacher(s) / employer, i.e. teacher who is working in secondary
school or other education, where the deceased person followed education at the
time of death, or where the deceased person was employed at the time of death
* Mental health care professional(s) involved, i.e. mental health care
professional such as psychologist or psychiatrist by whom the deceased person
was treated at the time of death or in the year prior to their death., The
research focuses on these characteristics of participants. There are no
specific inclusion criteria. If relatives do not speak the Dutch language, the
interview will be adapted by taking a translator to the interview.

Exclusion Criteria

A potential participant is excluded from participating in this study if he /
she meets the following exclusion criteria:
* Parents / caregivers and other relatives who are severely affected by
suicidal thoughts measured with the SIDAS as a screening instrument (cut-off
point total score 21 or higher, maximum total score is 50).
* Parents who are admitted to a psychiatric institution, regardless of the
psychiatric complaints they have, at the time of the examination