Citation

Baca-Garcia E, Diaz-Sastre C, Ceverino A, Garcia Resa E, Oquendo MA, Saiz-Ruiz J, De Leon J. Eur. Arch. Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 2004; 254(5): 326-329.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00406-004-0506-1

PMID

15365708

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: If premenstrual symptoms (PMS) are temporally and specifically associated with suicidal attempts, suicide attempts in women with PMS should occur more frequently in the luteal phase. METHOD: In a general hospital, 125 fertile female suicide attempters (and 83 blood donors as controls) with regular menstrual cycles were prospectively studied. A retrospective DSM-IV diagnosis of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) was made. RESULTS: Attempts during the luteal phase were not more frequent in females with PMDD (34%,23/68) than in those without PMDD (35%, 20/57). The sample had enough power to detect medium and large effect sizes. As expected, there was a significantly higher frequency of PMDD in suicide attempters than in the controls (54% vs 6%; Fisher's exact test, p