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Antidepressive therapy in depressed clinical suicides
Author(s) -
Modestin J.
Publication year - 1985
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.1600-0447.1985.tb01261.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , depression (economics) , medical diagnosis , major depressive disorder , clinical practice , medicine , suicide prevention , poison control , injury prevention , depressive symptoms , psychology , clinical psychology , medical emergency , physical therapy , anxiety , cognition , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
– A total of 61 clinical suicides, all of them fulfilling the Research Diagnostic Criteria for a depressive disorder, were examined with regard to the psycho pharmacological treatment they received at the time of their suicide. Scarcely half were treated with antidepressants, and only a small minority were optimally treated. One of the reasons for this therapeutic inadequacy lies in a discrepancy between the clinical and RDC diagnoses. An improvement in diagnostic practice, in the sense of paying more attention to the presence of a depressive syndrome, along with an improvement in psychopharmacological treatment, could contribute to a reduction in the clinical suicide rate, which has recently been observed to be increasing.