@article{ref1,
title="Completed versus attempted suicide in psychiatric patients: a psychological autopsy study",
journal="Journal of Psychiatric Practice",
year="2008",
author="Innamorati, Marco and Pompili, Maurizio and Masotti, Vittoria and Personé, Federico and Lester, David and Tatarelli, Roberto and Girardi, Paolo and Amore, Mario",
volume="14",
number="4",
pages="216-224",
abstract="The aims of this study were to identify specific risk factors associated with completed suicide in a sample of suicide victims diagnosed with mental illness and to discriminate completed suicides from attempted suicide in individuals who did not kill themselves for at least the next 2 years after the index attempt. Ninety-four adults (34 women; 60 men; mean age = 50.81 [SD = 18.08]) admitted to the Division of Psychiatry of the Department of Neurosciences of the University of Parma who died by suicide between 1994-2004 were matched for sex and age (+/- 2 years) with 94 outpatients (mean age = 50.70 [SD = 18.08]) who made at least one suicide attempt during the years of the study. Data were gathered by proxy-based interviews with referring psychiatrists and general practitioners and from examination of medical records. Suicide victims were more likely to be not married, have poor social support (OR = 5.28), and have more voluntary and compulsory admissions to hospitals (1 admission: OR = 5.44;>1 admissions: OR= 8.84) than suicide attempters. Suicide victims were also less likely to have had stressful life events during their childhood and adolescence (OR = 0.09) and to be divorced or widowed than were the attempters.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1527-4160",
doi="10.1097/01.pra.0000327311.04153.01",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.pra.0000327311.04153.01"
}