Citation

Lehle B. Krankenhauspsychiatrie, Supplement 2005; 16(1): S34-S39.

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(Copyright © 2005)

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Abstract

The data base of the Kliniksuizid-Verbund-Studie II, an association of 13 psychiatric hospitals in southern Germany which have investigated suicides during in-patient treatment since 1970 was taken for research. In the years 1990-1999, 442 inpatients committed suicide during their treatment. Typical facts of all suicides and differences between patients who committed suicide with an ICD-9 diagnose of depression vs. no diagnoses of depressive will be shown. In a further step, 46 depressive suicides were compared to a group of 46 patients who were equal or nearly equal in 6 points (Diagnoses of depression ICD-9, age, sex, number of psychiatric hospitalisation, year of index hospitalisation and suicidality at the beginning of in-patient treatment) and finished treatment after getting better.

RESULTS of all suicides: 53% psychosis, 26% depression; average age 21-30 years; 60% had a duration of disease of more than 2 years; suicide occurred after 68 days (mean) of treatment. Depressive suicides are older, more often employed, disease is more acute and the suicide is nearer to the beginning of the in-patient treatment. Matched pairs show no significant difference in suicidal history and the duration of their treatment. Although these groups show no differences in the number of suicidal crises while being treated, controlled clients are significantly more often treated with Lithium and are more often in special care of professionals during suicidal crises. © Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart.

Language: de

Keywords

human; Depression; suicide; Suicide; Germany; depression; Attempted suicide; article; disease association; statistical analysis; mental health service; geographic distribution; statistical significance; hospital patient; medical specialist; Inpatient; population distribution; Control group; In-patient treatment