title: Suicide in schizophrenia.
abstract: Schizophrenia is a disorder with an estimated suicide risk of 4-5%. Many factors are involved in the suicidal process, some of which are different from those in the general population. Clinical risk factors include attempted suicide, depression, male gender, substance abuse and hopelessness. Biosocial factors, such as a high intelligence quotient and high level of premorbid function, have also been associated with an increased risk of suicide in patients with schizophrenia. Suicide risk is especially high during the first year after diagnosis. Many of the suicides occur during hospital admission or soon after discharge. Management of suicide risk includes both medical treatment and psychosocial interventions. Still, risk factors are crude; efforts to predict individual suicides have not proved useful and more research is needed.
authors.affiliation: Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. andreas.carlborg@sll.se
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carlborg
authors.forename: Kajsa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Winnerbäck
authors.forename: Erik G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Jönsson
authors.forename: Jussi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jokinen
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nordström
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D012559:Schizophrenia; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*