Mortality and rate of suicide of first admission psychiatric patients. A 5-year follow-up of a prospective longitudinal study.
Patients who commit suicide in a psychiatric hospital are, in general, patients who have had previous admission or who have already made at least one suicide attempt. The following study focuses upon an earlier time within the course of a psychiatric illness, that is the time of first admission, and examines the rate of suicide of 258 patients after 5 years. Two control groups were selected: first admitted psychiatric patients who did not commit suicide, and patients who died a 'natural death'. We analyzed how the suicides were integrated into the vocational, social and medical areas of life before they were admitted to the hospital. Further it was possible to identify predictors of future suicide.
Blumenthal
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Abteilung Psychiatrie II, Universität Ulm, Bezirkskrankenhaus Günzburg, BRD.
Bell
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Neumann
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NU
Schüttler
R
R
Vogel
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R
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000401:mortality*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D000092864:Suicide Prevention