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Airi Värnik
Researcher at Tallinn University
Publications - 106
Citations - 9617
Airi Värnik is an academic researcher from Tallinn University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Suicide prevention & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 105 publications receiving 8302 citations.
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Suicide prevention strategies: a systematic review.
J. John Mann,Alan Apter,José Manoel Bertolote,Annette L. Beautrais,Dianne Currier,Ann Pollinger Haas,Ulrich Hegerl,Jouko Lönnqvist,Kevin M. Malone,Andrej Marusic,Lars Mehlum,George C Patton,Michael R. Phillips,Wolfgang Rutz,Zoltán Rihmer,Armin Schmidtke,David Shaffer,Morton M. Silverman,Yoshitomo Takahashi,Airi Värnik,Danuta Wasserman,Paul S. F. Yip,Herbert Hendin +22 more
TL;DR: Physician education in depression recognition and treatment and restricting access to lethal methods reduce suicide rates, and other interventions need more evidence of efficacy.
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Prevalence of pathological internet use among adolescents in Europe: demographic and social factors
Tony Durkee,Michael Kaess,Vladimir Carli,Peter Parzer,Camilla Wasserman,Camilla Wasserman,Birgitta Floderus,Alan Apter,Judit Balazs,Shira Barzilay,Julio Bobes,Romuald Brunner,Paul Corcoran,Doina Cosman,Padraig Cotter,Romain Despalins,Nadja Graber,Francis Guillemin,Christian Haring,Jean-Pierre Kahn,Laura Mandelli,Dragan Marušič,Gergely Mészáros,George J. Musa,Vita Postuvan,Franz Resch,Pilar A. Saiz,Merike Sisask,Airi Värnik,Marco Sarchiapone,Christina W. Hoven,Danuta Wasserman +31 more
TL;DR: Across a range of countries in Europe, using the Young Diagnostic Questionnaire for Internet Addiction yields a prevalence of 'pathological internet use' of 4.4% among adolescents, but varies by country and gender; adolescents lacking emotional and psychological support are at highest risk.
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School-based suicide prevention programmes: the SEYLE cluster-randomised, controlled trial
Danuta Wasserman,Christina W. Hoven,Camilla Wasserman,Camilla Wasserman,Melanie M. Wall,Ruth Eisenberg,Gergö Hadlaczky,Ian Kelleher,Marco Sarchiapone,Marco Sarchiapone,Alan Apter,Judit Balazs,Julio Bobes,Romuald Brunner,Paul Corcoran,Doina Cosman,Francis Guillemin,Christian Haring,Miriam Iosue,Michael Kaess,Jean-Pierre Kahn,Helen Keeley,George J. Musa,Bogdan Nemes,Vita Postuvan,Pilar A. Saiz,Stella Reiter-Theil,Airi Värnik,Peeter Värnik,Vladimir Carli +29 more
TL;DR: YAM was effective in reducing the number of suicide attempts and severe suicidal ideation in school-based adolescents, and underline the benefit of this universal suicide preventive intervention in schools.
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Adolescent subthreshold-depression and anxiety: psychopathology, functional impairment and increased suicide risk
Judit Balazs,Mónika Miklósi,Ágnes Keresztény,Christina W. Hoven,Vladimir Carli,Camilla Wasserman,Camilla Wasserman,Alan Apter,Julio Bobes,Romuald Brunner,Doina Cosman,Padraig Cotter,Christian Haring,Miriam Iosue,Michael Kaess,Michael Kaess,Jean-Pierre Kahn,Helen Keeley,Dragan Marušič,Vita Postuvan,Franz Resch,Pilar A. Saiz,Merike Sisask,Avigal Snir,Alexandra Tubiana,Airi Värnik,Marco Sarchiapone,Danuta Wasserman +27 more
TL;DR: Both subth threshold and threshold-anxiety and depression were related to functional impairment and suicidality, and incorporation of these subthreshold disorders into a diagnosis could provide a bridge between categorical and dimensional diagnostic models.
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Suicide attempts, plans, and ideation in culturally diverse sites: the WHO SUPRE-MISS community survey.
José Manoel Bertolote,Alexandra Fleischmann,Diego De Leo,Jafar Bolhari,Neury José Botega,Damani de Silva,Huong Tran Thi Thanh,Matthew Phillips,Lourens Schlebusch,Airi Värnik,Lakshmi Vijayakumar,Danuta Wasserman +11 more
TL;DR: The idea of the suicidal process as a continuous and smooth evolution from thoughts to plans and attempts of suicide needs to be further investigated as it seems to be dependent on the cultural setting.