Open AccessSuicidal ideation in schizophrenia: A cross-sectional study in a tertiary mental hospital in North-East India
Author(s) -
Santanu Nath,
Kamal Narayan Kalita,
Aparajeeta Baruah,
Anantprakash Siddharthkumar Saraf,
Diptadhi Mukherjee,
Pankaj Kumar Singh
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/psychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_130_19
Subject(s) - suicidal ideation , psychopathology , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , clinical psychology , depression (economics) , positive and negative syndrome scale , psychology , cross sectional study , suicide attempt , suicide prevention , poison control , medicine , psychosis , medical emergency , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
Suicide is a leading cause of mortality in schizophrenia. The study attempts to find an association of suicidal ideation, a less studied entity than suicide attempt, with various sociodemographic and clinical profiles in patients with schizophrenia.