TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1984//
TI  - Patterns of suicide among hospitalized mentally disordered offenders
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Marques, Janice K.
A1  - Haynes, R. L.
SP  - 113
EP  - 125
VL  - 14
IS  - 2
N2  - The case records of 29 mentally disordered offenders who committed suicide in a state hospital were reviewed. Information was collected on demographic and clinical characteristics; time, method and location of the suicides; and the presence of suicide indicators. Comparisons were made between the characteristics of the suicide patients and those of the current hospital population. Major findings were: 80 percent of the suicides were committed by psychotic patients and 66 percent were by patients with diagnoses which included paranoia; 48 percent of the suicide patients had been charged with or convicted of murder or attempted murder; most suicides occurred in individual patient rooms; nearly 50 percent of the patients had a history of suicide attempts; and other common indicators of suicide risk were often masked by psychotic symptomatology. Several recommendations for identifying and managing potentially suicidal patients in this population are presented.
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SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -