The Wessex Recent In-Patient Suicide Study, 2. Case-control study of 59 in-patient suicides
The Wessex Recent In-Patient Suicide Study, 2. Case-control study of 59 in-patient suicides
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.
Methods: 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.
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King, Elizabeth A.
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Baldwin, David S.
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Sinclair, Julia M.A.
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Campbell, Michael J.
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2001
King, Elizabeth A.
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Baldwin, David S.
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Sinclair, Julia M.A.
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Campbell, Michael J.
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King, Elizabeth A., Baldwin, David S., Sinclair, Julia M.A. and Campbell, Michael J.
(2001)
The Wessex Recent In-Patient Suicide Study, 2. Case-control study of 59 in-patient suicides.
British Journal of Psychiatry, 178 (6), .
Abstract
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.
Methods: 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.
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Published date: 2001
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