Citation

Rydelius PA. Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 1984; 70(2): 119-126.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

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PMID

6485845

Abstract

Of 1,206 patients treated during the period 1970-1980 in a department of child psychiatry in a large city in Sweden 24 (2%) (14 boys and 10 girls) had died by the end of 1981. Twenty-one of these (88%) died of "injuries following external violence and poisoning", of whom 15 (63%) were suicides. Twenty subjects (83%) had grown up in surroundings characterised by one or more psychosocial stress factors. The study indicates a possible link between psychosocial background factors and deaths from "injuries following external violence and poisoning".

Language: en