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Sunnqvist, C., Persson, U., Westrin., A., TraskmanBendz, L. and Lenntorp, B. (2012) Grasping the dynamoics of suicidal behaviour: Combining time-geographic life charting and COPE ratings. Journal of Psychiatric Mental Health and Nursing, 20, 336-344. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2850.2012.01928.x

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• TITLE: Coping strategies used by suicide attempters and comparison groups

  AUTHORS: Charlotta Sunnqvist, Lil Träskman-Bendz, Åsa Westrin

  KEYWORDS: Suicide-Attempt; Stressful Situations; COPE; Adaptive and Maladaptive Coping Strategies

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Psychiatry, Vol.3 No.2, April 22, 2013

  ABSTRACT: A variety of factors have been identified as being risk factors for suicidal behaviour. One of them is the handling of stressful events. The aim of the present study was to investigate the coping-strategies used by suicide attempters and comparison groups. 37 patients who had recently made a suicide attempt, 38 suicide attempters at follow up, 20 psychiatric follow up controls, and 19 healthy controls filled in the COPE. We found that suicide attempters at long term follow up and healthy controls used more adaptive problem solving strategies than patients who had recently made a suicide attempt, or psychiatric controls at follow up, who used more maladaptive coping strategies. Our findings suggest that suicide attempters in a twelve year follow up are able to use coping strategies similarly to healthy controls by e.g. approaching the stressor actively. Further examinations of the impact of long term professional care and treatment of suicide attempters on their coping strategies are necessary.