Citation

Power KG, Cooke DJ, Brooks DN. Br. J. Psychiatry 1985; 147: 655-659.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1985, Royal College of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3830327

Abstract

Eighty parasuicide patients were studied. The importance of life stress, age, and General Health Questionnaire score as predictors of the suicidal intent and medical lethality which they exhibited was examined. Medical lethality and suicidal intent were closely related: those whose parasuicide resulted in high lethality differed from those showing low lethality in their degree of suicidal intent, but did not differ in life stress, age, or GHQ score. Although both life stress and GHQ score were significantly correlated with suicidal intent, the GHQ score accounted for a greater proportion of the variance. These results suggest a more complex relationship between life stress, GHQ score, and suicidal intent than is often assumed.

Language: en