Scientific Program – SSRC

On this page, you will find information about the sessions and themes that will be presented during the Swedish Suicide research Conference 2025.

P = Keynote presentation with three speakers
PS = Parallel session with five speakers

Tuesday, May 6th

Sessions for Tuesday, May 6th
Time/RoomCommon AreaNew YorkAtlantaStockholm
8:30-Registration open
9:00–10:00P1: Opening session
10:00–10:30Coffee Break
10:30–12:00P2: Clinical Interventions in Suicide Prevention
12:00–12:45Poster Session
12:45–14:00Lunch Break
14:00–15:00PS1A: Genetics of SuicidePS1B: Suicide in Vulnerable GroupsPS1C: Suicide in Older Adults
15:00–15:30Coffee Break
15:30–16:30PS2A: Clinical InterventionsPS2B: Suicidal Behaviour among YouthPS2C: Women's Health
18:00Gala Dinner Svarta Räfven

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Wednesday, May 7th

Program Overview for Wednesday, May 7th
Time/RoomCommon areaNew YorkAtlanta
8:30–Registration open
9:00–10:30P3: Risk Factors and Suicide Risk Assessment
10:30–10:40Coffee Break
10:40–11:40PS3A: Suicide Risk AssessmentPS3B: Health Economy and Healthcare Utilisation
11:45–12:45PS4A: Public Health Interventions and Risk GroupsPS4B: Suicide and Psychiatric Disorders
12:45–14:00Lunch Break
14:00–15:00PS5A: Epidemiology of SuicidePS5B: Lived Experience
15:00–15:30Coffee Break
15:30–17:00P4: Suicide Epidemiology and Public Health
17:00–18:00P5: Closing session & Panel discussion

Plenary Sessions

Date: May 6 
Time: 9:00-10:00
Room: New York

Speakers:

  • Vladimir Carli
  • Karin Schulz
  • Gergö Hadlaczky – Overview of Suicide Research in Sweden

Date: May 6
Time: 10:30-12:00
Room: New York

Chair:

Johan Bjureberg

Speakers:

  • Erkki Isometsä – Are brief psychosocial interventions for suicide attempters effective?
  • Jennifer Hughes – Parents as Patients, Participants, and Facilitators in Youth Suicide Prevention Interventions
  • Matteo Bottai – Looking beyond randomized clinical trials

Date: May 7
Time: 9:00-10:30
Room: New York

Chair: 

Bo Runeson

Speakers:

  • Nav Kapur – Risk assessment for suicide prevention: vital endeavour or waste of time?
  • Elin Fröding – Suicide risk assessment in clinical practice: time to shift from prediction to prevention
  • Monica Hultcrantz – An HTA perspective on prioritising clinical interventions for suicide prevention

Date: May 7
Time: 15:30-17:00
Room: New York

Chair: 

Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz

Speakers:

  • Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz – State-of-the-art knowledge on epidemiological research on suicidal behaviour with a focus on research in Sweden
  • Ping Qin – Recent methodological developments in suicidological research
  • Annette Erlangsen – National suicide prevention strategies with a focus on Public Health interventions

Date: May 7
Time: 17:00-18:00
Room: New York

Chair:

Vladimir Carli

Speakers:

  • Åsa Westrin
  • Gergö Hadlaczky
  • Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz
  • Jenny Telander

Parallel Sessions

Date: May 6
Time: 14:00-15:00
Room: New York

Chair:

Christian Rück

Speakers:

  • Christian Rück – Is suicide uniquely human? On the root causes of self killing
  • Marcus Sokolowski – The latest gene discoveries and implicated biology from large scale GWAS meta-analyses
  • Thuy-Dung Nguyen – Investigating the genetics of sex difference in Medically Serious Suicide Attempt
  • Ruyue Zhang – Associations between clinical phenotypes and polygenic risk of anorexia nervosa and suicidality
  • Anna Ohlis – Genetic and environmental aetiologies of the transition from nonsuicidal self-injury to suicide attempt: a longitudinal twin study

Date: May 6
Time: 14:00-15:00
Room: Atlanta

Chair:

Clara Hellner

Speakers:

  • Lisa Harber-Aschan – Inequalities in suicides and suicide attempts for children of refugees in the early life-course
  • Emina Music – Deliberate self-harm and ethnicity in the city of Sarajevo; Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Clara Iversen – Dealing with callers’ racialised talk in suicide preventive helplines: Accomplishing (anti)racism in the context of unconditional support
  • Henrik Levinsson – Suicidal behavior in over-indebted individuals: a cross-sectional study in Sweden
  • Jon Petter Stoor – Suicidal behaviour among Sámi in Sweden: a cross-sectional study on risk factors 

Date: May 6
Time: 14:00-15:00
Room: Stockholm

Chair:

Margda Waern

Speakers:

  • Beau Nieuwenhuijs – Identifying subgroups of older men and women at high risk of suicide: a latent class analysis by gender
  • Stefan Wiktorsson – Attitudes towards “suicide as a right” and physician-assisted suicide among staff in long-term care for older adults in Sweden
  • Margda Waern – Older Adults’ Experiences of Existential Group Treatment
  • Sabrina Doering – "Younger" and "older" old adults who die by suicide: a comparison study and cluster analysis
  • Anders Broström – Risk factors for suicidal Ideation among Swedish Patients with Restless Legs Syndrome

Date: May 6
Time: 15:30-16:30
Room: New York

Chair: 

Britt Morthorst

Speakers:

  • Katja Sjöblom – Effect of Primary Care Online Emotion-Regulation Treatment: A Brief Intervention Targeting Adolescents Within First-Line Mental Health Care
  • Moa Karemyr – Preventing suicide with Safe Alternatives for Teens and Youths (SAFETY)
  • Erik Bergqvist – The experience of Attempted Suicide Short Intervention Program – a qualitative content analysis on longitudinal in-depth interviews with patients
  • Johan Bjureberg – Internet-Delivered Emotion-Regulation Therapy for Adolescents with Self-Harm: Treatment Effects, Mediation, Moderation, and Cost-Effectiveness

Date: May 6
Time: 15:30-16:30
Room: Atlanta

Chair:

Anna Ohlis

Speakers:

  • Benjamin Claréus – Do Time Trends Appear in Specific Non-Suicidal Self-Injurious Behaviors and Their Psychological Correlates Among Adolescents Across Two Decades?
  • Anna-Lena Hansson – Suicidal Communication Prior to Suicide in Children and Young Adults
  • Sebastian Hökby – Stress responses bridge links between adolescents’ digital media use and subsequent Depression and Suicidal ideation
  • Jill Åhs – Developing Suicide Referral Pathways for Youth in the Context of Routine National Surveys
  • Moa Pontén – A meta-analysis on pain sensitivity and self-injurious behavior in children and youths

Date: May 6
Time: 15:30-16:30
Room: Stockholm

Chair:

Tabita Sellin

Speakers:

  • Jing Zhou – Effect of antidepressant treatment on suicidal behavior among women with postpartum depression: a target trial emulation
  • Madeleine Mellqvist Fässberg – Age of onset of suicidal thoughts and attempts in women over the life course and the influence of early life adversities
  • Hang Yu – Machine-learned algorithm in prediction of suicidal behavior among patients with perinatal depression
  • Yihui Yang – Sex difference in parental risk of suicide attempt during and after pregnancy: a nationwide register-based study
  • Alicia Nevriana – The association between perimenopausal depression and suicidal behaviours

Date: May 7
Time: 10:40-11:40
Room: New York

Chair:

Jesper Alvarsson Hjort

Speakers:

  • Tyra Lagerberg – External validation of the Oxford Suicide Assessment Tool for Self-harm (OxSATS)
  • Lars-Håkan Thorell – Revision of research on suicide risk assessment. Failures in experimental designs prevent identification of valid risk assessment tools
  • Petter Karlsson – Is screening for suicide risk justifiable?
  • Siri Lindén & Manne Sjöstrand – Navigating Uncertainty: A Qualitative Exploration of Psychiatrists' Approaches to Suicide Risk Assessments
  • Anna Maria Nilsson – Application of an accident approach to the study of acute suicidal episodes through repeated in-depth interviews

Date: May 7
Time: 10:40-11:40
Room: Atlanta

Chair:

Filipa Sampaio

Speakers:

  • Åsa Westrin – Retrospective investigation of health care utilisation of individuals who died by suicide in Sweden 2015
  • Inna Feldman – Economic burden of suicide in Sweden in 2022
  • Elin Vimefall – Economic evaluations of suicide prevention
  • Yi Lu – Initial Medically Serious Suicide Attempts: Risk Factors, Impact, and Healthcare Use—A Comprehensive Analysis of the Swedish Population
  • Björn Sund – The societal cost of suicides, trespassing and struck-by-train accidents on the Swedish railway

Date: May 7
Time: 11:45–12:45
Room: New York

Chair:

Gergö Hadlaczky

Speakers:

  • Igor Radun – Road Traffic Suicides: Current Knowledge and Future Research Needs
  • Karen O'Quin – Evaluation of a Brief Contact Intervention (BCI) in Sweden: Methods and Early Lessons Learned in Implementation
  • Maria Zetterqvist – Increasing Knowledge and Confidence: An Evaluation of a Two-Day Workshop on Self-Injury for School Staff in a Swedish Educational Setting
  • Charli Eriksson – Poor Health and Adverse Psychosocial Conditions Among Adolescents in Nordic Countries: Variable- and Person-Oriented Analyses
  • Johan Fredin-Knutzén – Three Scalable and Innovative Suicide Prevention Measures for Rail Networks

Date: May 7
Time: 11:45-12:45
Room: Atlanta

Chair:

Åsa Westrin

Speakers:

  • Oskar Flygare – Short- and long-term risk factors for suicide and suicide reattempt: A prospective multicentre cohort study in Sweden
  • Viktoria Johansson – Healthcare and Psychiatric Drug Utilization After a Suicide Attempt in Depression: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Sweden
  • Sara Lindström – Excess mortality and suicide risk in individuals with schizotypal disorder: A population-based study using Swedish national registers
  • Katerina Kavalidou – Is mental health multimorbidity associated with contact with healthcare services before suicide? Retrospective analysis of Irish coronial data
  • Leoni Grossmann – Suicide following involuntary psychiatric care in Sweden: a descriptive nationwide study

Date: May 7
Time: 14:00-15:00
Room: New York

Chair:

Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz

Speakers:

  • Fred Johansson – Sex- and age-specific risk indicators of suicide: occurrence and association with suicide across the life course
  • Nina Palmqvist Öberg – Health care contacts of individuals with cardiac disease who died by suicide in Sweden in 2015
  • Emma Eliasson – Exploring Regional-Level Predictors of Suicide to Inform Prevention Strategies: A Longitudinal Perspective from Sweden
  • Amal Khanolkar – Rates of self-harm and suicide by sexual identity – A national population-based study in England and Wales
  • Clémence Deborgies Sanches – Characterization of mental health in cluster headache a.k.a suicide headache 

Date: May 7
Time: 14:00-15:00
Room: Atlanta

Chair:

Ulrika Lögdberg

Speakers:

  • Tanja Eriksson – Exploring the suicidal prison: Adults' experience of a suicide crisis - A reflective lifeworld research
  • Mahmoud Azzam – Experiences of Self-Stigma Among Individuals Who Have Attempted Suicide
  • Anna Maria Nilsson – The Meaning of Mental Imagery in Acute Suicidal Episodes: A Qualitative Exploration of Lived Experiences
  • Margda Waern – Older adults make sense of their suicidal behavior: a Swedish interview study 

Poster Session

  • P-01 Klara Bertils - Suicide prevention in everyday-life for people with autism and/or intellectual disability: experiences of supported living staff and care managers
  • P-02 Säidi Margot Idun Ovox - Peering into the deadliness of suicidality through life-world research
  • P-03 Sara Lindström - A study protocol of the effectiveness of the Attempted Suicide Short Intervention Program for recent suicide attempters: a randomized control study
  • P-04 Sara Lindström - Death of Despair in a 32-year follow-up study of suicide attempters
  • P-05 Anna Ehnvall - Understanding suicidal crises
  • P-06 Tabita Sellin - Suicide in patients within specialised somatic health care
  • P-07 Charlotte Roos - Implementing suicide prevention activities in community-based settings in Sweden – a qualitative explorative study
  • P-08 Elin Vimefall - The relative value of suicide prevention
  • P-09 David Titelman - Unintegrated narcissism: The missing link in psychological models of suicide
  • P-10 Victoria Lönnfjord - Why do they do as they do? Municipality Contact Persons' reasons for working with suicide prevention
  • P-11 Elin Fröding - Requirements for effective investigation and learning after suicide: The views of persons with lived experience and professionals
  • P-12 Sabrina Doering - Anxiety symptoms preceding suicide: a nationwide record review
  • P-13 Sabrina Doering - Substance use issues preceding suicide: a nationwide record review
  • P-14 Christina Nilsson - Loss of a human life – lived experiences of suicide survivors and professionals: a phenomenological and participatory action research study
  • P-15 Björn Sund - The effect of fire and rescue services response time at risk of suicide
  • P-16 Emina Music - Suicide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the City of Sarajevo with Special Reference to Ethnicity
  • P-17 Lars-Håkan Thorell - Review of Research on Hippocampal Dysfunction and Suicide Risk: Implications for Treatment of Underlying Factors Contributing to Suicide Risk
  • P-18 Sara Melin - Epilepsy-Related Risk Factors for Suicide in Patients with Epilepsy: A Nationwide Case-Control Study
  • P-19 Theodore Tianyi Miao - Medication use before suicide among older adults with and without multimorbidity
  • P-20 My Lindberg - Inpatient Suicides in Swedish Psychiatric Settings – A Retrospective Exploratory Study from a Nursing Perspective
  • P-21 Clara Iversen - Suicide prevention in everyday-life for people with autism and/or intellectual disability: experiences of supported living staff and care managers
  • P-22 Amal R Khanolkar - Sexual identity inequalities in poor mental health and health risk behaviours co-occurrence, and risk for attempted suicide – A national cohort study 

Questions?

Please contact ssrc@ki.se if you have any questions regarding the conference or the scientific program. 

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