A comparison of suicides in psychiatric in-patients, after discharge and in not recently hospitalized individuals

Deisenhaminer EA, Behrndt EM, Kemrnler G, Haring C, Miller C (2016)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2016

Journal

Comprehensive Psychiatry Elsevier

Book Volume: 69

Pages Range: 100-5

DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2016.05.003

Abstract

Time of in-patient treatment and the first weeks after hospital discharge have repeatedly been described as periods of increased suicide risk. This study compared demographic, clinical and suicide related factors between in-patient, post-discharge and not recently hospitalized suicides.Suicide data from the Tyrol Suicide Register were linked with registers of three psychiatric hospitals in the state of Tyrol, Austria. Suicide cases then were categorized as in-patient suicides, post-discharge suicides (suicide within 12weeks after discharge) or never/not within 12weeks before death hospitalized suicides. Data were collected between 2004 and 2011.Of the total of 711 cases, 30 were in-patient, 89 post-discharge and 592 not recently hospitalized suicides. The three groups differed with regard to male-to-female ratio (lower in both hospitalized groups), marital status, suicide method used (jumping in in-patients, hanging in not recently hospitalized suicides), history of attempted suicide and suicide threats (highest in in-patients) and whether suicides had been in psychiatric or general practitioner treatment shortly before death. In most variables with significant differences there was a gradual increase/decrease with post-discharge suicides taking the middle place between the two other groups.The three suicide populations differed in a number of variables. Varying factors appear to influence suicide risk and choice of method differently in in-patient, post-discharge and not hospitalized suicides.

Authors with CRIS profile

Elisa-Marie Behrndt Medizinische Fakultät

Additional Organisation(s)

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Involved external institutions

Bezirkskrankenhaus Kufstein AT Austria (AT) Landeskrankenhaus Hall AT Austria (AT) Medizinische Universität Innsbruck AT Austria (AT)

How to cite

APA:

Deisenhaminer, E.A., Behrndt, E.-M., Kemrnler, G., Haring, C., & Miller, C. (2016). A comparison of suicides in psychiatric in-patients, after discharge and in not recently hospitalized individuals. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 69, 100-5. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2016.05.003

MLA:

Deisenhaminer, Eberhard A., et al. "A comparison of suicides in psychiatric in-patients, after discharge and in not recently hospitalized individuals." Comprehensive Psychiatry 69 (2016): 100-5.

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