TY - JOUR PY - 1984// TI - Attempted suicide in chronic schizophrenia JO - British journal of psychiatry A1 - Roy, Alec A1 - Mazonson, A. A1 - Pickar, D. SP - 303 EP - 306 VL - 144 IS - N2 - In a consecutive series of 127 chronic schizophrenics admitted to hospital, 70 (55.1 per cent) had attempted suicide. When compared with the chronic schizophrenics who had not attempted suicide, significantly more of the attempters had had a major depressive episode (45.7 per cent) and had received antidepressant medication (65.7 per cent). They also had histories of significantly more psychiatric admissions (a mean of 5.4 compared with 3.6). These findings are discussed.
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