Citation

McKegney FP, O'Dowd MA. Am. J. Psychiatry 1992; 149(3): 396-398.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1536281

Abstract

Among psychiatric consultation patients, 322 AIDS patients were significantly less suicidal than 82 other HIV-positive patients and were comparable in suicidality to 1,086 patients with negative or unknown HIV status. AIDS patients had significantly more organic mental disorders. Organicity, denial, acceptance, and/or preoccupation with a fatal illness may reduce suicidality in AIDS patients.

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