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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.

Please note that the program is continuously updated, and we reserve the right to make changes as necessary.

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

Tuesday, May 6

Sessions for Tuesday, May 6
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
EveningGala Dinner

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Wednesday, May 7

Program Overview for Wednesday, May 7
Time/RoomCommon areaNew YorkAtlanta
8:30–Registration open
9:00–10:30P3: Risk Factors and Suicide Risk Assessment
10:40–11:40PS3A: Suicide Risk AssessmentPS3B: Health Economy and Healthcare Utilisation
11:45–12:45PS4A: Public Health InterventionsPS4B: 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 Kapoor – 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 – TBA

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:

To be added

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

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

Chair:

To be added

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
  • 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:

To be added

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:

Vladimir Carli

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 – 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:

To be added

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:

To be added

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

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

Chair:

To be added

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 - Peering into the deadliness of suicidality through life-world research
  • 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 

Questions?

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

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Content reviewer:
03-04-2025