The Psychological Autopsy: Methodological Considerations for the Study of Adolescent Suicide

摘要: The psychological autopsy has been employed to study risk factors for completed suicide more than three decades. Despite a wide range in methods of approach families and interview techniques, the studies show high compliance remarkable consistency results across age diverse geographic samples. convergent evidence is that diagnostic information obtained both reliable valid, although it likely such an will be specific sensitive. Integration data through autopsies with biochemical, toxicological, epidemiological approaches deepen our understanding suicide. Successful completion careful should enable investigators examine intensively patients who resemble completers, thereby transcending inherent limitations this important first step investigation