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Mental disorder in youth suicide
Author(s) -
Runeson B.
Publication year - 1989
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.1600-0447.1989.tb10292.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , depression (economics) , borderline personality disorder , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , major depressive disorder , mood disorders , psychology , prevalence of mental disorders , mood , poison control , suicide prevention , suicide attempt , clinical psychology , medicine , mental health , anxiety , medical emergency , economics , macroeconomics
– A 3‐year urban material of suicides in adolescents and young adults (age 15–29 years) was studied retrospectively by means of interviews with survivors ( n = 58). Classification of mental disorders according to DSM‐III‐R showed that major depression was important as background to suicides in 41%, primary (22%) or secondary (19%) to other disorders. Adding major depression, depressive disorder, not otherwise specified, dysthymia and adjustment disorder with depressed mood gave a total of 64% depressive syndromes. Schizophrenia (14%) and borderline personality disorder (28%) constituted other relevant groups. Coexisting substance use disorder occurred in 47%. A majority of the subjects (72%) were known by psychiatric caregivers and 16% committed suicide during inpatient care.