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Alec Roy, MB BCh

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1982;39(9):1089-1095.

Abstract
• In a matched controlled study of 90 psychiatric patient suicides, I found that significantly more of the suicides suffered from chronic schizophrenia (33.3%) or recurrent affective disorder (18.8%) and had made a previous suicide attempt (46.6%). The suicides were young and significantly more were unmarried (84.5%), unemployed (66%), living alone, (55.5%) and depressed (65.5%), and 44.4% had a primary diagnosis of depressive disorder. Of the 75 outpatient suicides, 58% had seen a psychiatrist within the previous week, 61 of the 75 (81.3%) had been admitted in their last episode of contact, and 44% of these suicided within a month of discharge.

Author Affiliations
From the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 9, 1981.

Reprint requests to National Institute of Mental Health, Biological Psychiatry Branch, Section of Neuropsychopharmacology, Bldg 10, Room 4N214, 900 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20205 (Dr Rov)

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