@article{ref1,
title="Psychiatric contacts among youths aged 13 through 24 years who have made serious suicide attempts",
journal="Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry",
year="1998",
author="Beautrais, Annette L. and Joyce, P. R. and Mulder, Roger T.",
volume="37",
number="5",
pages="504-511",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To compare the history of psychiatric contacts among young people who have made medically serious suicide attempts and control subjects. METHOD: Using a case-control design, the authors contrasted 129 young people who made serious suicide attempts with 153 randomly selected community controls on a series of measures of lifetime, prior year, and prior month contacts with psychiatric services. RESULTS: Of those who made serious suicide attempts, 78.3% had a lifetime history of contact with health services for psychiatric reasons, 72.1% reported contact within the year preceding the suicide attempt 58.9% reported contact within the month preceding the suicide attempt, and 29.5% had a lifetime history of psychiatric hospital admission. Within the year preceding the suicide attempt, 21.7% had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital and 67.4% had outpatient consultations for psychiatric problems. Multiple logistic regression suggested that the best psychiatric service predictors of risk of serious suicide attempt were admission within the preceding year (p < .005) and outpatient consultation within the preceding month (p < .0001). CONCLUSIONS: Young people making serious suicide attempts had vastly elevated rates of a range of psychiatric contacts including hospital admissions and outpatient consultations. These findings imply that the development of improved treatment and management strategies for young people with psychiatric morbidity may be a very effective approach to reducing youthful suicidal behaviors.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0890-8567",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}