Citation

Singh OP. Alpha Psychol. 2022; 23(1): e26.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Department of Psychiatry, Trakya University School of Medicine, Publisher AVES)

DOI

10.1530/alphapsychiatry.2022.2201011

PMID

36425245

PMCID

PMC9674098

Abstract

People with schizophrenia have increased mortality and morbidity than the general population. There can be various reasons including death from non-communicable diseases, suicide, and accidents. The lifetime risk of suicide is around 5%. While some of the risk factors were similar to the general population, the disease-specific risk factors have been described as the young, male, higher levels of education, presence of insight, depressive symptoms, prior suicidal attempts, and co-morbid substance use.1

People who got discharged from the hospital after 1st episode of schizophrenia and not on antipsychotics have 12 times increased risk of all-cause death and 37 fold increase in death rates by suicide.2 The presence of insight and stigma has been implicated in this increase in mortality by suicide....

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