ArticleEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2007
Suicide victims' contacts with physicians during the year before death.
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- Suicide Risk Help-Seeking Among Middle- to Old-Age Adults: A Systematic Review.Innovation in aging · 2023Review
- Increased suicide risk of psychiatric patients following the recent utilization of health care services: results from a nationwide cohort study in South Korea.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Care service use in 2 years preceding suicide among older adults: comparison with those who died a natural death and those who lived longer.European journal of ageing · 2017Article
- Identifying Risk for Suicide.Health & social work · 2016Article
- Attitudes and stigma in relation to help-seeking intentions for psychological problems in low and high suicide rate regions.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2014Article
- Distinctive emotional responses of clinicians to suicide-attempting patients--a comparative study.BMC psychiatry · 2013Article
- The stigma of psychiatric treatment and help-seeking intentions for depression.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2009Article
- Factors associated with choice of psychotropic drugs used for intentional drug overdose.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2009Article
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Abstract
Suicide victims frequently have had contact with physicians during the last year before death. However, oftentimes suicidal ideation is not reported overtly. This study investigates the course of contact rates of suicide victims with physicians during the year before death. Official suicide data and insurance company data were linked for 317 subjects who had committed suicide between 1998 and 2002. Quarterly contact rates with physicians during the respective last year of life were compared. Contact rates of suicide victims with physicians varied considerably concerning age, gender and physicians' specialization. Contacts with 'any physician' and general practitioners generally increased over the year, most pronounced in men and in those older than 60 years. In contrast to males, female contacts to psychiatrists increased until one quarter before suicide and then dropped significantly shortly before suicide. A pattern of contacting more than one general practitioner per quarter occurred significantly more often in the suicide quarter than during the year before, predominantly in those older than 60 years. Such a 'doctor shopping' behavior may reflect an intensified patients' searching for adequate help. Taking contact behavior changes into account may increase the chance to identify individuals at risk and thus may contribute to suicide prevention.
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