[40 years in-patient suicide research of the working group "Suicidality and the psychiatric hospital"].
OBJECTIVE
To give an retrospective overview according to the so-called in-patient suicide especially in German psychiatric hospitals.


METHODS
Summary of results of the working group "Suicidality and the psychiatric hospital" during the last four decades in Germany.


RESULTS
First, it could be shown that there was a real increase of in-patient suicides during the 70(th) and 80(th) years. Two other results are important 1) an impressive decrease of suicide rates in the two last decades and 2) the observation of a change from the new high-risk group "young schizophrenic patients" back to the traditional suicide risk group of depressed patients.
Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Bezirkskrankenhaus Bayreuth.
Manfred
M
Wolfersdorf
Klinik für Forensische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie am BHK Günzburg.
Rüdiger
R
Vogel
Psychiatrische Tagesklinik, Geislingen.
Rainer
R
Vogl
Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie/Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Ulm.
Ferdinand
F
Keller
Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Bezirkskrankenhaus Landshut.
Hermann
H
Spießl
Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie II, Christian-Doppler-Klinik, Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität, Salzburg/Österreich.
Friedrich Martin
FM
Wurst
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D035843:Biomedical Research; D002423:Cause of Death / Q000639:trends*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000639:trends; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology / Q000639:trends*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention