Citation

Small GW, Rosenbaum JF. Can. J. Psychiatry 1984; 29(2): 129-131.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6722703

Abstract

The authors describe nine psychiatric inpatients from the same hospital who leaped from a height. Common features included youth, social isolation, diagnosis of schizophrenia, and chronic psychosis despite neuroleptic therapy. All had prolonged hospitalizations and a history of assaults, suicide attempts, or both. The authors suggest that these characteristics in conjunction with a recent change in hospital treatment plan or loss of social supports may identify patients at high-risk for violent self-destructive acts.

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