Sociology, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, USA.
Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada.
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2019 Jun;49(3):859-867. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12489. Epub 2018 Jul 5.
Although suicidologists have devoted great interest toward the importance of suicide notes, scant attention has been paid to their impact upon the suicide bereaved.
To address this issue we conducted on an online survey querying 146 mostly American suicide bereaved adults who indicated severe emotional distress after their losses, 80% of whom had lost first degree-relatives.
We found no significant differences in mental health outcomes between those who received suicide notes and those who had not; nor were differences noted between those whose notes contained helpful or unhelpful information and those who had not received such information.
We also observed poorer mental health outcomes among the suicide bereaved who expected to receive a suicide note after their loved one died-and did not receive any communication- indicating needs for clinical support among this vulnerable subgroup.
尽管自杀研究人员非常关注自杀遗言的重要性，但很少有人关注它们对自杀者遗属的影响。
为了解决这个问题，我们进行了一项在线调查，调查了 146 名主要来自美国的自杀者遗属，这些遗属在失去亲人后感到严重的情绪困扰，其中 80%的人失去了直系亲属。
我们发现收到自杀遗言和未收到遗言的人之间的心理健康结果没有显著差异；也没有注意到那些遗言中包含有帮助或无帮助信息的人与未收到此类信息的人之间有任何差异。
我们还观察到，在那些预期在亲人去世后会收到自杀遗言但没有收到任何信息的自杀者遗属中，心理健康结果更差——这表明这个脆弱的亚组群需要临床支持。
