Risk factors for suicide in psychiatric patients.
In a matched controlled study of 90 psychiatric patient suicides, I found that significantly more of the suicides suffered from chronic schizophrenia (33.3%) or recurrent affective disorder (18.8%) and had made a previous suicide attempt (46.6%). The suicides were young and significantly more were unmarried (84.5%), unemployed (66%), living alone, (55.5%) and depressed (65.5%), and 44.4% had a primary diagnosis of depressive disorder. Of the 75 outpatient suicides, 58% had seen a psychiatrist within the previous week, 61 of the 75 (81.3%) had been admitted in their last episode of contact, and 44% of these suicided within a month of discharge.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics / Q000628:therapy; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics / Q000628:therapy; D010333:Paternal Deprivation; D012306:Risk; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics; D012737:Sex Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000453:epidemiology