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Deaths among child and adolescent psychiatric patients
Author(s) -
Rydelius P.A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1984.tb01189.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , psychology , medicine
– Of 1,206 patients treated during the period 1970–1980 in a department of child psychiatry in a large city in Sweden 24 (2 %) (14 boys and 10 girls) had died by the end of 1981. Twenty‐one of these (88 %) died of ‘“injuries following external violence and poisoning”, of whom 15 (63 %) were suicides. Twenty subjects (83 %) had grown up in surroundings characterised by one or more psychosocial stress factors. The study indicates a possible link between psycho‐social background factors and deaths from “injuries following external violence and poisoning”.