Citation

Wolfersdorf MG, Keller F, Kaschka WP, Geldmacher C, Grebner M, Lorscheider U, Khazaeli A, Lehle B, Neef I, Neher F, Rommel U, Schoog R, Steinert T, Vogl R, Vogel R, Vogel WD, Wurst FM. Arch. Suicide Res. 1997; 3(4): 303-311.

Affiliation

Nervenkrankenhaus Bayreuth, Clinic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, D-95445 Bayreuth, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, International Academy of Suicide Research, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

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Abstract

The well-known fact of suicides of psychiatric inpatients during psychiatric hospital treatment is discussed according to national and international suicide data. In our Baden-Wurttemberg (Germany) Psychiatric Inpatient Suicide Study an increase in suicide and suicide rates from 1970 to 1993 can be shown with an mostly impressive increase in the 1970s and a plateau formation in the 1980s and constant figures in the 1990s. The group of 585 suicides (59% men, 41% women) is composed of: 26% primarily depressives, 53% schizophrenics (ICD-9); where the following features were notable presuicidal syndrome with depressive mood (68%), insight into illness (63%), feelings of suffering (64%), failure (57%), hopelessness (54%) and helplessness (54%).