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Suicide risk in female suicide attempters not responding to a follow‐up study
Author(s) -
Hengeveld M. W.,
Egmond M.,
Bouwmans P. M.,
Rooyen L.
Publication year - 1991
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.1600-0447.1991.tb07380.x
Subject(s) - suicide attempt , suicide prevention , psychiatry , suicide risk , poison control , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , suicide methods , medicine , occupational safety and health , psychology , clinical psychology , medical emergency , suicide rates , pathology
The 95 patients not responding to a follow‐up study of 227 female suicide attempters differed from the responders in that fewer of them were undergoing psychiatric treatment at the time of the suicide attempt and fewer were referred for psychiatric outpatient aftercare following the suicide attempt. Yet, the subsequent occurrence of suicide was no higher in the group of nonresponders than in the group of responders. This study again underlines the difficulty of predicting recurrent suicidal behaviour, even in a high‐risk group of suicide attempters.