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| Thomas NiederkrotenthalerSummaryAffiliation: Medical University of Vienna Country: Austria Publications
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Assessing the impact of media guidelines for reporting on suicides in Austria: interrupted time series analysisThomas Niederkrotenthaler
Medical University of Vienna, Center for Public Health, Institute for Medical Psychology, Severingasse 9, A 1090 Vienna, Austria
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 41:419-28. 2007..This report provides an evaluation of the Austrian guidelines that were introduced in 1987 as a natural experiment...
Suicide in films: the impact of suicide portrayals on nonsuicidal viewers' well-being and the effectiveness of censorshipBenedikt Till
Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Suicide Life Threat Behav 40:319-27. 2010..There were no relevant differences between the film groups. The more a subject identified with the protagonist, the greater were the negative effects...- Perinatal conditions and parental age at birth as risk markers for subsequent suicide attempt and suicide: a population based case-control studyThomas Niederkrotenthaler
Department of General Practice and Family Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringerstr 13a, 1090, Vienna, Austria
Eur J Epidemiol 27:729-38. 2012..Public health implications from this study include measures to improve pre- and perinatal parental mental health, particularly in teenage pregnancies... - Changes in suicide rates following media reports on celebrity suicide: a meta-analysisThomas Niederkrotenthaler
Department of General Practice and Family Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
J Epidemiol Community Health 66:1037-42. 2012..The aim of this study was to evaluate the best current evidence on the association between celebrity suicide stories and subsequent suicides... 
Predictors of suicide and suicide attempt in subway stations: a population-based ecological studyThomas Niederkrotenthaler
Department of General Practice and Family Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
J Urban Health 89:339-53. 2012..Suicide-preventive interventions should concentrate on crowded stations and on stations frequented by risk groups...- Exposure to parental mortality and markers of morbidity, and the risks of attempted and completed suicide in offspring: an analysis of sensitive life periodsThomas Niederkrotenthaler
Department of General Practice and Family Medicine and Institute for Medical Psychology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Severingasse 9, 1090 Vienna, Austria
J Epidemiol Community Health 66:233-9. 2012..There is evidence of parental risk factors for suicidal behaviour in offspring, but research on variations in their effects with offspring's age at first exposure is sparse... - Development of a practical tool to measure the impact of publications on the society based on focus group discussions with scientistsThomas Niederkrotenthaler
Centre for Public Health, Department of General Practice and Family Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
BMC Public Health 11:588. 2011..In order to develop a practical tool for its assessment, it is important to learn about perceptions of scientists on how to measure a societal impact factor... - Role of media reports in completed and prevented suicide: Werther v. Papageno effectsThomas Niederkrotenthaler
Department of General Practice and Family Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Br J Psychiatry 197:234-43. 2010..Few studies have investigated the associations between specific media content and suicide rates. Even less is known about the possible preventive effects of suicide-related media content... - The gap between suicide characteristics in the print media and in the populationThomas Niederkrotenthaler
Institute for Medical Psychology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Eur J Public Health 19:361-4. 2009..Programmes to educate media professionals about suicide are increasingly established, but information about which suicide cases are most likely to be reported in the mass media is sparse... - Copycat effects after media reports on suicide: a population-based ecologic studyThomas Niederkrotenthaler
Medical University of Vienna, Center for Public Health, Department of Medical Psychology, Severingasse 9, Vienna, Austria
Soc Sci Med 69:1085-90. 2009..Evidence of copycat effects seemed to be strongest in suicides that were similar to the respective model with regard to age group, sex, and suicide method... - [The "Werther-effect": legend or reality?]Thomas Niederkrotenthaler
Institut fur Medizinische Psychologie, Zentrum für Public Health, Medizinische Universität Wien
Neuropsychiatr 21:284-90. 2007.... - Can media effects counteract legislation reforms? The case of adolescent firearm suicides in the wake of the Austrian firearm legislationThomas Niederkrotenthaler
Department of Medical Psychology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
J Adolesc Health 44:90-3. 2009..A temporary increase in firearm suicides after the reform was observed, followed by a continuous decrease. The hypothesis that media reporting triggered the short-term backlash effect is discussed... - Suicide seasonality: complex demodulation as a novel approach in epidemiologic analysisIngo W Nader
Department of Basic Psychological Research, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
PLoS ONE 6:e17413. 2011.... - Not carried away by a moonlight shadow: no evidence for associations between suicide occurrence and lunar phase among more than 65,000 suicide cases in Austria, 1970-2006Martin Voracek
Department of Basic Psychological Research, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Wien Klin Wochenschr 120:343-9. 2008..This study investigated lunar effects on one particular outcome (completed suicide) for which the literature appears unsettled, owing to some recent reports with positive findings... - Declining autopsy rates and suicide misclassification: a cross-national analysis of 35 countriesNestor D Kapusta
Department for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:1050-7. 2011..Suicides are prone to misclassification during death ascertainment procedures. This problem has generated frequent criticism of the validity of suicide mortality statistics... - Development of a scale to assess knowledge about suicide postvention using item response theoryIngo W Nader
Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Suicide Life Threat Behav 43:174-84. 2013..Additionally, we provide cues for convergent validity. In summary, the scale shows satisfactory properties for assessing KSPV and could be used to evaluate suicide postvention programs more effectively... - Availability of mental health service providers and suicide rates in Austria: a nationwide studyNestor D Kapusta
Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18 20, Vienna 1090, Austria
Psychiatr Serv 61:1198-203. 2010..This small-area analysis examined whether the availability of professionals providing mental health treatment in Austria had an effect on regional suicide rates...