Deaths among child and adolescent psychiatric patients.
Of 1,206 patients treated during the period 1970-1980 in a department of child psychiatry in a large city in Sweden 24 (2%) (14 boys and 10 girls) had died by the end of 1981. Twenty-one of these (88%) died of "injuries following external violence and poisoning", of whom 15 (63%) were suicides. Twenty subjects (83%) had grown up in surroundings characterised by one or more psychosocial stress factors. The study indicates a possible link between psychosocial background factors and deaths from "injuries following external violence and poisoning".
D000059:Accidents; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012931:Social Environment; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*; D014754:Violence