Citation

Schmölzer C, Wolfersdorf MG, Hole G. Psychiatr. Prax. 1990; 17(4): 150-155.

Vernacular Title

Basissuizidalitat in einem psychiatrischen Krankenhaus.

Affiliation

Psychiatrisches Landeskrankenhaus Weissenau, Abteilung Psychiatrie I, Universität Ulm, Ravensburg-Weissenau.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2395940

Abstract

Using a questionnaire the therapists of the Psychiatric Hospital in Ravensburg Weissenau were requested for information on the suicidality and symptomato-logy of their patients. This was done to assess the acute and chronic suicidality prevalent in a psychiatric hospital. The number of acute and chronic suicidal patients, the prevalence of self-destructive behaviour (38%) as well as the fact that 75% of the 475 assessed patients belonged to diagnostic groups with an imminent high risk of suicidality, show the high "basic suicidality" that therapists of a psychiatric hospital to deal with: 7% of the assessed patients were acutely, 11% chronically and 22% possibly suicidal; 38% had had suicidal episodes at least once in their life. The rate of suicidality was highest among patients with affective psychoses followed by those with personality disorders, neurotic disorders and depressive syndromes.

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