Citation

Torhorst A, Wächtler C, Moller HJ. Psychiatr. Prax. 1986; 13(2): 63-71.

Vernacular Title

Beschreibung soziodemographischer und psychiatrischer Daten von 295 Patienten

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3010358

Abstract

295 attempted suicides with intoxication are described by sociodemographic, biographic, and psychiatric characteristics. The patients were hospitalized for detoxification, and after clearing up interviewed by a psychiatrist working in the hospital as a liaison-psychiatrist. The patients did not differ essentially from patients treated in the emergency unit of another general hospital of the city in terms of basic social data. The patients--65% women, 35% men--are young (up to 40 years), 39% had already attempted suicide before the index-time. 41% came from "broken homes", 40% had one or more psychiatric disease(s) in their families. 56% were diagnosed as "psychiatrically ill", second diagnosis was in 33.5% abuse of alcohol/drugs. The referal offer to the patients for the time after discharge from emergency unit is described in detail. Just 12% of the patients were treated in a psychiatric hospital, after-care in an ambulatory setting seemed to be sufficient for most of the other patients. 20% were not offered any after-care. Patients with addiction and psychosis were sent to institutions specialized for these diagnoses.

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