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
Time/Room | Common Area | New York | Atlanta | Stockholm |
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8:30- | Registration open | |||
9:00–10:00 | P1: Opening session | |||
10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break | |||
10:30–12:00 | P2: Clinical Interventions in Suicide Prevention | |||
12:00–12:45 | Poster Session | |||
12:45–14:00 | Lunch Break | |||
14:00–15:00 | PS1A: Genetics of Suicide | PS1B: Suicide in Vulnerable Groups | PS1C: Suicide in Older Adults | |
15:00–15:30 | Coffee Break | |||
15:30–16:30 | PS2A: Clinical Interventions | PS2B: Suicidal Behaviour among Youth | PS2C: Women's Health | |
18:00 | Gala Dinner Svarta Räfven |
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Wednesday, May 7th
Time/Room | Common area | New York | Atlanta |
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8:30– | Registration open | ||
9:00–10:30 | P3: Risk Factors and Suicide Risk Assessment | ||
10:30–10:40 | Coffee Break | ||
10:40–11:40 | PS3A: Suicide Risk Assessment | PS3B: Health Economy and Healthcare Utilisation | |
11:45–12:45 | PS4A: Public Health Interventions and Risk Groups | PS4B: Suicide and Psychiatric Disorders | |
12:45–14:00 | Lunch Break | ||
14:00–15:00 | PS5A: Epidemiology of Suicide | PS5B: Lived Experience | |
15:00–15:30 | Coffee Break | ||
15:30–17:00 | P4: Suicide Epidemiology and Public Health | ||
17:00–18:00 | P5: 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.