@article{ref1,
title="Axis I disorders and personality disorders as risk factors for suicide",
journal="European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience",
year="2005",
author="Sargk, Dieter and Wetterling, Tilman and Schneider, Birke and Fritze, J. and Maurer, Konrad and Schnabel, Axel and Schneider, F.",
volume="256",
number="1",
pages="17-27",
abstract="There is a lack of psychological autopsy studies assessing the influence of axis I disorders on axis II disorders as risk factors for suicide. Therefore, we investigated the association between personality disorders, axis I disorders, and suicide. Psychiatric disorders were evaluated by a semi-structured interview including the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I (SCID-I) and Personality Disorders (SCID-II) in 163 completed suicides (mean age 49.6 +/- 19.3 years; 64.4% men) and by personal interview in 396 populationbased control persons (mean age 51.6 +/- 17.0 years; 55.8% men). In both genders, suicides significantly more often had personality disorders of all clusters than controls, also after adjustment for axis I disorders (p < 0.001, each). In addition, alcohol-related disorders, major depression, and co-occurrence of personality disorders of more than one cluster (men: OR = 16.13; women: OR = 20.43) remained independent predictors for suicide in both genders,"pure" cluster B personality disorders only in women and "pure" cluster C personality disorders only in men. In both genders, co-occurrence of personality disorders of more than one cluster contributed to risk of completed suicide after control for axis I psychiatric disorders and has to be considered as an independent risk factor for suicide.",
language="",
issn="0940-1334",
doi="10.1007/s00406-005-0593-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00406-005-0593-7"
}