About the Authors

Roland Mergl

Contributed equally to this work with: Roland Mergl, Nicole Koburger

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxonia, Germany

Nicole Koburger

Contributed equally to this work with: Roland Mergl, Nicole Koburger

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxonia, Germany

Katherina Heinrichs

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxonia, Germany

András Székely

Affiliation Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Semmelweis University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Mónika Ditta Tóth

Affiliation Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Semmelweis University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

James Coyne

Affiliation Department of Health Psychology, University Medical Center, Groningen, the Netherlands

Sónia Quintão

Affiliation CEDOC, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Ella Arensman

Affiliation National Suicide Research Foundation and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Claire Coffey

Affiliation National Suicide Research Foundation and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Margaret Maxwell

Affiliation Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

Airi Värnik

Affiliation Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute and Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

Chantal van Audenhove

Affiliation LUCAS Center for care research and consultancy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

David McDaid

Affiliation London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom

Marco Sarchiapone

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy, National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty, Rome, Italy & University “Gabriele d’Annunzio” Foundation, Chieti, Italy

Armin Schmidtke

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Axel Genz

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Ricardo Gusmão

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, CEDOC, Universidade Nova de Lisboa & ISPUP, Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Ulrich Hegerl

Ulrich.Hegerl@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxonia, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UH RG EA MM AV CVA DMcD MS A. Schmidtke A. Székely AG JC. Performed the experiments: NK MT RG SQ CC AG. Analyzed the data: RM KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK MT RG SQ CC AG. Wrote the paper: RM NK KH A. Székely MT RG SQ EA CC MM AV CVA DMcD MS A. Schmidtke AG JC UH. Scientific consultancy: JC.