title: [The pathology of self-destruction. Personal experience. Clinico-statistical aspects].
abstract: Personal experience of 165 cases of attempted suicide observed at the resuscitation centre of the Biella Hospital in the period 1983-1987 is reported. The patients are examined from the point of view of their personal status, job, previous pathologies with particular regard to depressive anxiety syndromes. Particularly noteworthy is the high incidence of mortality among patients who had tried suicide previously.
authors.affiliation: U.S.S.L. n. 47, Ospedale degli Infermi, Biella, (Vercelli).
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lupo
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Peracchio
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Capellaro
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012008:Recurrence; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
vernacular_title: Patologia anticonservativa. Esperienza personale. Considerazioni clinico-statistiche.