This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

J. P. Lepine, MD; J. M. Chignon, MD; M. Teherani, MS

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1993;50(2):144-149.

Abstract
• In a clinical sample of 100 outpatients with panic disorder, 42% had a history of suicide attempt. Female sex and being single, divorced, or widowed were associated with an increased risk of suicide attempt. Thirty-one (73.8%) of the suicide attempts occurred after the first panic attack and 27 (64.3%) after the onset of panic disorder. Eighty-eight of these patients met DSM-III-R criteria for at least one other diagnosis in addition to panic disorder. Moreover, 52% had a history of major depressive episode and 31% had a lifetime diagnosis of alcohol and/or other substance abuse. Compared with those who did not attempt suicide, those who attempted suicide were significantly more likely to have suffered from major depressive episode and alcohol or other substance abuse in their lifetime. Among the 35 patients with no comorbidity with either major depression or addictive behaviors, 17.1 % had a history of suicide attempt. All had suffered from depressive symptoms and/or a personality disorder. The same association was found in four of 19 patients suffering from panic disorder only with or without agoraphobia.

Author Affiliations
From the Psychiatry Departments, Hôpital Bichat (Dr Lepine and Mrs Teherani) and Hôpital Louis Mourier (Dr Chignon), Paris, France.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication February 8, 1992.

Reprint requests to the Psychiatry Department, Hôpital Louis Mourier, 178, Rue des Renouillers, 92701 Paris cedex France (Dr Chignon).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Anxiety Disorders and Risk for Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study of Adults
Sareen et al.
Arch Gen Psychiatry 2005;62:1249-1257.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Suicide and schizophrenia
Siris
J Psychopharmacol 2001;15:127-135.
ABSTRACT  

Anxiety in Major Depression: Relationship to Suicide Attempts
Placidi et al.
Am. J. Psychiatry 2000;157:1614-1618.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Lifetime panic-depression comorbidity in the National Comorbidity Survey: Association with symptoms, impairment, course and help-seeking
ROY-BYRNE et al.
Br. J. Psychiatry 2000;176:229-235.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT