@article{ref1,
title="Suicide among psychiatric hospital in-patients",
journal="Psychological medicine",
year="1995",
author="Roy, A. and Draper, R.",
volume="25",
number="1",
pages="199-202",
abstract="We examined for risk factors for suicide among psychiatric in-patients by comparing 37 in-patients from an Ontario Provincial Psychiatric Hospital who had committed suicide with 37 age and sex matched in-patient controls. Significantly more of the suicide victims had made a previous suicide attempt (62.2 v. 35.1%), suffered from schizophrenia (75.7 v. 35.1%), were involuntary at their last admission (70.3 v. 43.2%) and lived alone (70.3 v. 43.2%). Only six patients committed suicide on the ward. Almost a third of the patients, the majority schizophrenic, committed suicide after having been in the hospital for more than a year. These results suggest that in the psychiatric hospital setting the in-patient at risk for suicide has previously exhibited suicidal behaviour, suffers from schizophrenia, was admitted involuntarily, lives alone and that the risk of suicide may remain high among long-stay schizophrenics.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2917",
doi="10.1017/s0033291700028233",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700028233"
}