Citation

Kontaxakis V, Markidis M, Vaslamatzis G, Ioannidis H, Stefanis CN. Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 1988; 77(4): 435-437.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3389178

Abstract

A group of 46 persons who had attempted suicide by jumping was compared on clinical and social-demographic parameters with another group of 214 persons who had attempted suicide by drug overdose. The differential characteristics of persons attempting suicide by jumping are the following: more often men, of a more advanced age, married or widowed, more often suffering from major psychopathology (that is affective psychosis-depressive type or schizophrenia), and quite frequently having a serious somatic illness.

Language: en