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Attempted suicide by jumping: Clinical and social features
Author(s) -
Kontaxakis V.,
Markidis M.,
Vaslamatzis G.,
Loannidis H.,
Stefanis C.
Publication year - 1988
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.1600-0447.1988.tb05146.x
Subject(s) - psychopathology , psychiatry , jumping , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , suicide prevention , poison control , clinical psychology , medicine , medical emergency , physiology
— A group of 46 persons who had attempted suicide by jumping was compared on clinical and social‐demographic parameters with another group of 214 persons who had attempted suicide by drug overdose. The differential characteristics of persons attempting suicide by jumping are the following: more often men, of a more advanced age, married or widowed, more often suffering from major psychopathology (that is affective psychosis‐depressive type or schizophrenia), and quite frequently having a serious somatic illness.