@article{ref1,
title="Depression, delusions, and suicide",
journal="American journal of psychiatry",
year="1983",
author="Roose, Steven P. and Glassman, Alexander H. and Walsh, B. T. and Woodring, S. and Vital-Herne, J.",
volume="140",
number="9",
pages="1159-1162",
abstract="A retrospective analysis of all the suicides at the New York State Psychiatric Institute over a 25-year period was carried out. The authors retrospectively assigned diagnoses according to Research Diagnostic Criteria and DSM-III and found that among the patients who committed suicide there were 14 with unipolar endogenous depression. Of those 14 patients, 10 were considered delusional or probably delusional. In comparison, a control group of similarly diagnosed depressed patients taken from the same institution over the same time period included far fewer delusional depressions. Thus, there was a significant association between delusions and suicide: A delusionally depressed patient was five times more likely to commit suicide than a nondelusional one.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-953X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}