@article{ref1,
title="Premenstrual symptoms and suicide attempts",
journal="European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience",
year="2004",
author="De Leon, Jose and Saiz-Ruiz, Jeronimo and Oquendo, Maria A. and Garcia Resa, Eloy and Ceverino, Antonio and Diaz-Sastre, Carmen and Baca-Garcia, Enrique",
volume="254",
number="5",
pages="326-329",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: If premenstrual symptoms (PMS) are temporally and specifically associated with suicidal attempts, suicide attempts in women with PMS should occur more frequently in the luteal phase. METHOD: In a general hospital, 125 fertile female suicide attempters (and 83 blood donors as controls) with regular menstrual cycles were prospectively studied. A retrospective DSM-IV diagnosis of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) was made. RESULTS: Attempts during the luteal phase were not more frequent in females with PMDD (34%,23/68) than in those without PMDD (35%, 20/57). The sample had enough power to detect medium and large effect sizes. As expected, there was a significantly higher frequency of PMDD in suicide attempters than in the controls (54% vs 6%; Fisher's exact test, p </= 0.001). CONCLUSION: This study was limited by the use of retrospective PMDD diagnosis but suggests that PMDD may not be associated with suicidal acts during the luteal phase,when PMS are present.",
language="",
issn="0940-1334",
doi="10.1007/s00406-004-0506-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00406-004-0506-1"
}