@article{ref1,
title="Suicide in widowed persons: A psychological autopsy comparison of recently and remotely bereaved older subjects",
journal="American journal of geriatric psychiatry",
year="1998",
author="Duberstein, P.R. and Conwell, Y. and Cox, C.",
volume="6",
number="4",
pages="328-334",
abstract="Using the psychological autopsy method, the authors sought to determine whether widowed people who commit suicide more than 4 years after their spouse's death (n=21) can be clinically distinguished from those who commit suicide after a shorter period of widowhood (n = 14). The latter had a higher rate of psychiatric treatment (P=0.018), early loss/separation (P=0.03), and a nonsignificantly higher rate of lifetime substance abuse (P = 0.07). Spousal bereavement increases the likelihood of physician visits, so the recently widowed represent a population for whom interventions may be readily implemented. Clinicians should monitor suicide risk in their recently widowed patients, especially those with psychiatric, substance abuse, and/or early loss/separation histories.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1064-7481",
doi="10.1097/00019442-199811000-00008",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00019442-199811000-00008"
}