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Women attempted suicide nearly  twice as often as men. The highest suicide attempt rates were found for women  aged 20\u201324 years, for men aged 30\u201334 years, and for people who were unmarried,  of foreign nationality, and of low education or low employment status. \u2018Soft  methods\u2019 were used significantly more often than \u2018hard methods\u2019. Of the suicide  attempt methods employed, a relatively high proportion was accounted for by self-poisoning  with drugs (X60-64), especially with non\u00adsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs,  benzodiazepines and antidepressants. Significant gender differences were found in  the various methods and in the frequency of psychiatric diagnoses. A total of 98.7%  of the attempters were diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder according to  ICD-10; 35% suffered from an affective disorder. Men were significantly more frequently  affected by substance abuse disorder or psychosis, whereas in women adjustment  disorders and personality disorders were diagnosed significantly more often.\n        CONCLUSIONS:  This study offers the first published representative  data of an entire Swiss county. Established sociodemographic and clinical risk  factors for suicide attempts were reproduced. The identification of risk  factors contributes to developing local targeted prevention strategies, for example  education of risk groups and caregivers, and pharmacolegal consequences for package  sizes. Gender- and age-specific prevention and aftercare programmes are  indicated.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4414\/smw.2013.13759","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,3]],"date-time":"2014-07-03T10:27:23Z","timestamp":1404383243000},"page":"w13759","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Suicide  attempts in the county of Basel: results from the WHO\/EURO Multicentre Study on  Suicidal Behaviour"],"prefix":"10.57187","volume":"143","author":[{"given":"Flavio","family":"Muheim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Martin","family":"Eichhorn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pascal","family":"Berger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Stephanie","family":"Czernin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gabriela","family":"Stoppe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Merle","family":"Keck","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anita","family":"Riecher-R\u00f6ssler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"36756","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,19]]},"container-title":["Swiss Medical Weekly"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/smw.ch\/index.php\/smw\/article\/download\/1679\/2236","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/smw.ch\/index.php\/smw\/article\/download\/1679\/2237","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/smw.ch\/index.php\/smw\/article\/download\/1679\/2238","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/smw.ch\/index.php\/smw\/article\/download\/1679\/2236","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,15]],"date-time":"2025-08-15T04:27:32Z","timestamp":1755232052000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/smw.ch\/index.php\/smw\/article\/view\/1679"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,19]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1920","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,6]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4414\/smw.2013.13759","relation":{},"ISSN":["1424-3997"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1424-3997","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,19]]}}}