@article{ref1,
title="Psychotic (delusional) major depression in the elderly and suicidal behaviour",
journal="Journal of affective disorders",
year="2002",
author="Lykouras, Lefteris and Gournellis, Rossetos and Fortos, Andreas and Oulis, Panagiotis and Christodoulou, George N.",
volume="69",
number="1-3",
pages="225-229",
abstract="BACKGROUND: It has been established that depressed patients manifest a higher risk of committing suicide. The role of delusional experiences accompanying depressive symptomatology as a risk factor for suicidal behaviour has been investigated but the results are inconsistent. METHOD: In the present study, 40 elderly depressed inpatients with psychotic features (DSM-IV criteria) were compared to 64 elderly depressed patients without such features in terms of suicide attempts. RESULTS: The results of univariate and multivariate analyses were negative: Psychotic and nonpsychotic depressed patients did not differ with respect to attempted suicide. CONCLUSION: The results of the present study support the notion that psychotic features do not increase the risk for the elderly depressed patients to attempt suicide.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-0327",
doi="10.1016/s0165-0327(00)00322-0",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0165-0327(00)00322-0"
}