@article{ref1,
title="Antipsychotics as a method of suicide: population based follow-up study of suicide in Northern Finland",
journal="Nordic journal of psychiatry",
year="2020",
author="Mainio, Arja and Kuusisto, Liisa and Hakko, Helina and Riipinen, Pirkko",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="AIM: This study examined the trend and role of antipsychotics as a method of self-poisoning suicide.   MATERIALS AND METHODS: The basic data covered 483 poisoning suicides, occurring between the years 1988 and 2011, in Northern Finland, of which 178 (115 men, 63 women) were completed using antipsychotics.   RESULTS: During the 23-year follow-up period, second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) overtook first-generation antipsychotics (FGAs) as a suicide method. Female victims, compared to males, had more commonly used quetiapine (17.5% vs. 6.1%, p = .016), while suicides using promazine were more common in males compared to females (36.5% vs. 22.2%, p = .049). People with unipolar depression had more frequently used SGAs (40.0%) or a combination of SGAs and FGAs (12.5%) than FGAs (19.2%) (p = .019) in their suicides.   CONCLUSION: The use of SGAs in suicides is becoming increasingly common, which calls for further studies.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0803-9488",
doi="10.1080/08039488.2020.1847323",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08039488.2020.1847323"
}