Suicide in a large population of former psychiatric inpatients

Gender Differences in Military Psychiatric Inpatients Admitted for Suicide Ideation

Gender Differences in Military Psychiatric Inpatients Admitted for Suicide

Association between cigarette smoking and suicide in psychiatric inpatients

INTRODUCTION Cigarette smoking is the single largest preventable cause of death and disability in the industrialized world and it causes at least 85% of lung cancers, chronic bronchitis and emphysema. In addition smokers are at a higher risk from psychiatric co-morbid illness such as depression and completed suicide. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey in which we targeted all patie...

Efficient suicide ideation screening for psychiatric inpatients and community residents

Background: An efficient screening instrument which can be used in diverse settings to predict suicide in different populations is vital. The aim of this study was to use the five-item Brief Symptom Rating Scale (BSRS-5) as a screening instrument for the prediction of suicide ideation in psychiatric, community and general medical settings. Methods: Five hundred and one psychiatric, 1,040 commun...

Death and suicide among former child and adolescent psychiatric patients

BACKGROUND Increased mortality rates among previous child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) patients have been found in Scandinavian studies up to the 1980s. The suicide risk in this group has been estimated to be almost five times higher than expected. This article addresses two questions: Do Swedish CAP patients continue to risk premature death and what kind of information related to psychiatri...