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Some Results from an Automated Statewide Comparison among Attempted, Committed, and Nonsuicidal Patients
Author(s) -
Sletten Ivan W.,
Evenson Richard C.,
Brown Marjorie L.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1973.tb00865.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , suicide prevention , suicide attempt , mental health , occupational safety and health , psychology , medicine , poison control , medical emergency , pathology
In the Missouri Division of Mental Health statewide automated Standard System of Psychiatry, 151 patients who had attempted suicide were compared with 424 who had not and with 97 who had committed suicide. Much of the data was provided from relatives using an automated history. Compared with nonattempters, attempters were younger and more often female, depressed, assaultive, and had a family history of suicide. Actual suicides were more often male, better educated, and in general more resembled the attempters than nonattempters.