Citation

Breier A, Astrachan BM. Am. J. Psychiatry 1984; 141(2): 206-209.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6691481

Abstract

Twenty schizophrenic patients who committed suicide were compared with a randomly selected group and a sex-matched group of nonsuicidal schizophrenic patients and with a group of nonschizophrenic patients who committed suicide. The schizophrenic patients who committed suicide were more often men, and tended to be young, never married, non-Protestant, and white. They failed to communicate their suicidal intent directly, used highly lethal suicide methods, and tended not to have undergone stressful life events associated with their suicides. A thorough, case-by-case clinical assessment of potential suicidal ideation is essential with schizophrenic patients.

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