Risk factors for violent suicide attempts: Hungarian cross-sectional study

Previous studies suggest that risk factors are largely indistinguishable between individuals who engage in violent versus nonviolent suicide attempts. However, individuals who attempted suicide using violent methods exhibited characteristics more closely aligned with those who died by suicide than with the remainder of the sample. The majority of data in this study were collected during the COVID-19 pandemic - a period marked by multiple overlapping crises - which may have played a disproportionately large role in the emergence of suicide risk.