Biomedical subjects

G Eisenwort

Publications and source records attributed to G Eisenwort.

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PubMed2007

[Suicidology: suicide notes and their themes].

BACKGROUND: The study of suicide notes has a long tradition. It is important to integrate this study into psychological autopsy and to make contact with the bereaved. For the first time, we present an Austrian-German study and its themes. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A consecutive series of suicides, investigated at the Department for Forensic Medicine in Vienna from Mai 2002 until April 2005, was examined for the presence of suicide notes. Suicide notes and demographic variables were integrated in an Access databank. RESULTS: A total of 29% of the those committing suicide left notes, however, the bereaved of only about a quarter allowed these to be studied. The major part was hand written, addressed to the general public or family, and shorter than 150 words. Frequent themes were specific instructions, emotions, themes regarding the environment such as the family, occupation and leisure time, and themes regarding stations of life and illness.

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PubMed2006

[Suicide notes and their importance to suicide research. The representativeness of suicide note writers].

BACKGROUND: Suicide notes provide direct information from suicide victims and often are written shortly before the suicide act. An important question is whether those who write such notes are representative for suicide victims who do not. METHODS: A consecutive series of suicides investigated at the Department of Forensic Medicine in Vienna from April 2002 to March 2003 was examined for the existence of suicide notes. Note writers were compared with non-note writers according to the variables age, sex, family status, occupational status, psychiatric care, suicide motive, and method. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Suicide victims who leave suicide notes do not differ statistically significantly from non-note-leavers in sex, age, family status, psychiatric care, motive, or method. This means they are representative for all suicide victims concerning important demographic factors.

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[Concerning specific language impairment: intelligibility in expressive language].

BACKGROUND: Even in the age of two years toddlers with Expressive Language Impairment (SLI-E) differ regarding their phonetic inventories compared with an age-matched group developing normally. METHOD AND PATIENTS: PCC-R scores of 19 children with expressive language disorder, aged between four and six years, are compared with age and sex matched controls with normal language acquisition. RESULTS: There are significant differences between PCC-R scores, children with expressive language disorder show lower scores than children with normal language acquisition. Age, sex and nonverbal intelligence do not influence performance measured with PCC-R. Analysis regarding early, middle and late consonants shows, that expressive language disordered children show bigger problems in aquiring late than early and middle consonants.

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