TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Antipsychotics as a method of suicide: population based follow-up study of suicide in Northern Finland
JO  - Nordic journal of psychiatry
A1  - Mainio, Arja
A1  - Kuusisto, Liisa
A1  - Hakko, Helina
A1  - Riipinen, Pirkko
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0803-9488
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08039488.2020.1847323
ID  - ref1
ER  -