Attempted suicide and social support

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Investigation of the role of social support in the development and maintenance of attempted suicide has rarely gone beyond the relatively uncontrolled clinical study. The present series of control group studies of suicidal and non-suicidal individuals investigated the role of social support deficits in the occurrence of attempted suicide, and documented changes in social support after the act using well-defined measures of this variable. An initial study comparing suicide attempters interviewed at the time of their attempt and again six weeks later with non-suicidal controls, revealed a range of social support deficits. However the suicidal group recorded significant improvement on several indices of social support and a lessening of the wish to die over the period of study. Two further sets of analyses were performed upon this data set in order to identify relatively homogeneous subtypes within the sample, and to study the quality and changing status of social support for each of the

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