ArticleBMC psychiatry2005
The characteristics of suicides within a week of discharge after psychiatric hospitalisation - a nationwide register study.
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- Early Post-Discharge Suicide in Mental Health Patients: Findings From a National Clinical Survey.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Combining brief contact interventions (BCI) into a decision-making algorithm to reduce suicide reattempt: the VigilanS study protocol.BMJ open · 2018Article
- Taking care of suicidal patients with new technologies and reaching-out means in the post-discharge period.World journal of psychiatry · 2017Review
- Treating Suicidality in College Counseling Centers: A Response to Polychronis.Journal of college student psychotherapy · 2017Article
- Prevalence and characteristics of suicide attempters and ideators among acutely admitted psychiatric hospital patients in northwest Russia and northern Norway.BMC psychiatry · 2015Article
- Attitudes of acceptability and lack of condemnation toward suicide may be predictive of post-discharge suicide attempts.BMC psychiatry · 2015Article
- Predicting suicides after psychiatric hospitalization in US Army soldiers: the Army Study To Assess Risk and rEsilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS).JAMA psychiatry · 2015Article
- Preventing suicide among inpatients.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2014Review
- Predictive validity of the Suicide Trigger Scale (STS-3) for post-discharge suicide attempt in high-risk psychiatric inpatients.PloS one · 2014Article
- Review of predictors of suicide within 1 year of discharge from a psychiatric hospital.Current psychiatry reports · 2008Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe characteristics of victims of immediate post-discharge suicides are not well known. We explored these characteristics for the purposes of better recognition and preventive efforts of potential immediate post-discharge suicides.
methodsSuicides from a Finnish nationwide register were linked with preceding periods of psychiatric inpatient treatment. Characteristics of suicides within a week of discharge were compared to those occurring later after discharge.
resultsCompared to other previously hospitalised suicide victims, those committing suicide within a week of discharge were more often female, unmarried, had a higher grade of education and a diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum or affective disorder, tended to use more drowning and jumping from heights as the methods for suicide and had gained a smaller improvement in psychological functioning during hospitalization.
conclusionThese characteristics indicate a more severe psychopathology, relatively poorer level of functioning, less global response to hospitalisation, and a more frequent choice of lethal and easily available method for suicide. Potentially suicidal psychiatric patients should be better recognized and an immediate follow-up arranged if it is decided they be discharged.
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