Citation

Landmark J, Cernovsky ZZ, Merskey H. Br. J. Psychiatry 1987; 151: 18-20.

Affiliation

London Psychiatric Hospital, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Royal College of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3676622

Abstract

A group of 118 patients with a hospital diagnosis of schizophrenia was reviewed. The incidence of suicide attempts was significantly correlated with more frequent past psychiatric admissions, more frequent past diagnoses of schizophrenia, and poor work function. The apparent relationships could be spurious or based on a reversed causal sequence; for example, suicide attempts are likely to be followed by psychiatric admissions.

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