Clinical characteristics and precipitating factors of adolescent suicide attempters admitted for psychiatric inpatient care in South Korea.

These findings are contrary to a decreasing trend of suicide mortality in adolescents of other OECD countries: while in 2000, on average across all OECD countries, 7.7 suicides per 100,000 adolescents aged 10-24 years were observed, in 2010 this rate was 6.5 suicides per100,000 individuals. 28 The purpose of this article is to present the first descriptive data regarding suicide attempts within a Korean adolescent sample.

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