Attempted suicide by jumping: clinical and social features.
A group of 46 persons who had attempted suicide by jumping was compared on clinical and social-demographic parameters with another group of 214 persons who had attempted suicide by drug overdose. The differential characteristics of persons attempting suicide by jumping are the following: more often men, of a more advanced age, married or widowed, more often suffering from major psychopathology (that is affective psychosis-depressive type or schizophrenia), and quite frequently having a serious somatic illness.
Kontaxakis
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Department of Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Markidis
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M
Vaslamatzis
G
G
Ioannidis
H
H
Stefanis
C
C
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011041:Poisoning / Q000523:psychology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000150:complications; D012737:Sex Factors; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*