Citation

Wood KA, Nairn R, Kraft H, Siegel A. AIDS Care 1997; 9(4): 385-389.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9337883

Abstract

Rates of suicidality with HIV-infected, seriously mentally ill individuals were investigated. Fifty asymptomatic HIV-positive psychiatric in-patients were compared to a demographically-matched HIV-negative cohort. The groups were similar, except that seropositive subjects were less likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia. Both groups had high rates of suicidality, with higher rates associated with non-schizophrenic diagnoses. HIV-positive subjects had higher rates of suicidality, with those diagnosed with schizophrenia showing the greatest difference from their HIV-negative counterparts. HIV-positive patients required less in-patient treatment. These data expand previous reports showing an association between HIV and increased suicidality, even among individuals with already elevated suicidal rates.

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