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Suicidal behaviour in schizophrenic day patients
Author(s) -
Prasad A. J.,
Kellner P.
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.tb05156.x
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , suicide prevention , poison control , injury prevention , psychology , test (biology) , human factors and ergonomics , depressive symptoms , medicine , occupational safety and health , clinical psychology , medical emergency , cognition , biology , paleontology , physics , optics , pathology
— A survey of non‐hospitalised schizophrenics was conducted to test the hypothesis that schizophrenics who had attempted suicide are phenomenologically and demographically different from the ones that do not. On comparison, it emerged that the former had significantly higher incidence of psychiatric morbidity in the family, were on the whole younger and had a much larger number of Present State Examination (PSE) depressive symptoms.