TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - The Wessex Recent In-Patient Suicide Study, 2. Case-control study of 59 in-patient suicides
JO  - British journal of psychiatry
A1  - King, E. A.
A1  - Baldwin, D. S.
A1  - Sinclair, J. M.
A1  - Campbell, M. J.
SP  - 537
EP  - 542
VL  - 178
IS  - 
N2  - BACKGROUND: Psychiatric patients have an elevated risk of suicide while in hospital.  AIMS: To compare social, clinical and health-care delivery factors in in-patient and out-patient suicides and their controls.  METHOD: Retrospective case-control study of 59 in-patients and 106 controls, matched for age, gender, diagnosis and admission date. Odds ratios were calculated using conditional multiple logistic regression.  RESULTS: There were seven independent increased-risk factors: history of deliberate self-harm, admission under the Mental Health Act, involvement of the police in admission, depressive symptoms, violence towards property, going absent without leave and a significant care professional being on leave. When compared with out-patient suicides, in-patients were more often female and male in-patients had a psychotic illness. Unlike the out-patient suicides, social factors were not found to be significant.  CONCLUSIONS: The characteristics of in-patient and out-patient suicides differ. Identified risk factors have relatively low sensitivity and specificity.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-1250
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.178.6.537
ID  - ref1
ER  -