Suicides of the hospitalized chronic shizophrenic patients in the period from 1972 to 2002.
The paper deals with the data on suicides of the hospitalised chronic schizophrenic patients in the pre-war, war and post-war time, i.e. the period from 1972 to 2002. The subjects are the schizophrenic patients from the Psychiatric hospital of Domanovići who were moved at the beginning of war to the premises of the Clinical hospital of Mostar. Special attention in the analysis has been paid to the war year of 1992, when a high rate of suicides was registered among the hospitalised schizophrenic patients, the data showing their number, gender, age, diagnosis, duration of illness, hospitalisation as well as earlier attempts of suicide or suicides in their families. The results of the research show the increase in the number of suicides in the period of the most terrible war events, caused by their displacement, inadequate accommodation, lack of food and medicines. This research is epidemiological, retrospective, descriptive and analytic.
Maslov
Boris
B
Clinical Hospital Mostar, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine at the University of Mostar, 88 000 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, boris.maslov@tel.net.ba.
Babić
Dragan
D
Klarić
Miro
M