Baseline factors predictive of serious suicidality at follow-up findings focussing on age and gender from a community-based study.docVIP

Fairweather-Schmidt et al. BMC Psychiatry 2010, 10:41 /1471-244X/10/41 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Baseline factors predictive of serious suicidality at Research article follow-up: findings focussing on age and gender from a community-based study A Kate Fairweather-Schmidt*1, Kaarin J Anstey2, Agus Salim3 and Bryan Rodgers4 Abstract Background: Although often providing more reliable and informative findings relative to other study designs, longitudinal investigations of prevalence and predictors of suicidal behaviour remain uncommon. This paper compares 12-month prevalence rates for