@article{ref1,
title="Suicide attempts in schizophrenia and their relationship to depression, insight and stigma",
journal="Alpha psychiatry",
year="2022",
author="Singh, Om Prakash",
volume="23",
number="1",
pages="e26-e26",
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....<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2757-8038",
doi="10.1530/alphapsychiatry.2022.2201011",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/alphapsychiatry.2022.2201011"
}