Copycat suicidal attempt by a 7 year old boy after watching homicidal behavior in media: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Suicidal behavior in media may promote others towards suicide. No published study was found about suicidal attempt in children less than 10 years old after watching a homicidal behavior. CASE PRESENTATION: This is a report of a 7 year old boy referred because he hanged himself after wa...

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Autor principal: Ghanizadeh, Ahmad
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2635349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19138418
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-43
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description INTRODUCTION: Suicidal behavior in media may promote others towards suicide. No published study was found about suicidal attempt in children less than 10 years old after watching a homicidal behavior. CASE PRESENTATION: This is a report of a 7 year old boy referred because he hanged himself after watching homicidal behavior of hanging in a fictional movie. DISCUSSION: To the author's knowledge, there was no published report of copycat suicidal attempt in a 7 year old child after watching a homicidal behavior in media. This report warns about an imitative effect of movie watching of homicidal behavior on suicidal attempt.
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spelling pubmed-26353492009-02-04 Copycat suicidal attempt by a 7 year old boy after watching homicidal behavior in media: a case report Ghanizadeh, Ahmad Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: Suicidal behavior in media may promote others towards suicide. No published study was found about suicidal attempt in children less than 10 years old after watching a homicidal behavior. CASE PRESENTATION: This is a report of a 7 year old boy referred because he hanged himself after watching homicidal behavior of hanging in a fictional movie. DISCUSSION: To the author's knowledge, there was no published report of copycat suicidal attempt in a 7 year old child after watching a homicidal behavior in media. This report warns about an imitative effect of movie watching of homicidal behavior on suicidal attempt. BioMed Central 2009-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2635349/ /pubmed/19138418 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-43 Text en Copyright ©2009 Ghanizadeh; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Copycat suicidal attempt by a 7 year old boy after watching homicidal behavior in media: a case report
title_sort copycat suicidal attempt by a 7 year old boy after watching homicidal behavior in media: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2635349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19138418
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-43
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