TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Voluntary self-poisoning as a cause of admission to a tertiary hospital internal medicine clinic in Piraeus, Greece within a year
JO  - BMC psychiatry
A1  - Tountas, C.
A1  - Sotiropoulos, A.
A1  - Skliros, S. A.
A1  - Kotsini, V.
A1  - Peppas, T. A.
A1  - Tamvakos, E.
A1  - Pappas, S.
SP  - 4
EP  - 4
VL  - 1
IS  - 
N2  - BACKGROUND: Out of 1705 patients hospitalised for various reasons in the 3rd Internal Medicine Department of the Regional General Hospital of Nikaea, in Piraeus, 146(8,5%) persons were admitted for drug intoxication between November 1999 and November 2000. METHODS: On average, these persons [male 50(34,2%)--female 96(65,8%)] were admitted to the hospital within 3.7 hours after taking the drug. RESULTS: The drugs that were more frequently taken, alone or in combination with other drugs, were sedatives (67.1%), aspirins and analgesics (mainly paracetamol) (43.5%). 38.3% of patients had a mental illness history, 31.5% were in need of psychiatric help and 45.2% had made a previous suicide attempt. No death occurred during the above period and the outcome of the patients' health was normal. After mental state examination, the mental illnesses diagnosed were depression (20.96%), psychosis (15.32%), dysthymic disorder (16,2%), anxiety disorder (22.58%) and personality disorder (8.87%). CONCLUSIONS: Self-poisoning remains a crucial problem. The use of paracetamol and sedatives are particularly important in the population studied. Interpersonal psychiatric therapy may be a valuable treatment after people tried to poison themselves.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1471-244X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -