Journal article
Factors Associated With Suicide Attempts Among Patients With Schizophrenia
Psychiatric Services, Vol.49(10), pp.1353-1355
10/1998
DOI: 10.1176/ps.49.10.1353
PMID: 9779911
Abstract
This study explored the association between psychosocial variables and symptoms among patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders who have attempted suicide and those who have not attempted suicide. Of 336 patients with a DSM-III-R diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who were consecutively evaluated at a university-affiliated clinical research center, 98, or 29.2 percent, reported one or more suicide attempts. Compared with patients who had not attempted suicide, patients who had made an attempt had a greater number of lifetime depressive episodes, an earlier age of onset of their illness, and an earlier age at first hospitalization.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Factors Associated With Suicide Attempts Among Patients With Schizophrenia
- Creators
- Sanjay GuptaDonald W BlackStephan ArndtWilliam C HubbardNancy C Andreasen
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychiatric Services, Vol.49(10), pp.1353-1355
- DOI
- 10.1176/ps.49.10.1353
- PMID
- 9779911
- NLM abbreviation
- Psychiatr Serv
- ISSN
- 1075-2730
- eISSN
- 1557-9700
- Publisher
- American Psychiatric Publishing
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/1998
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Biostatistics; Nursing; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984003972202771
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