TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - Suicide in widowed persons: A psychological autopsy comparison of recently and remotely bereaved older subjects
JO  - American journal of geriatric psychiatry
A1  - Duberstein, P.R.
A1  - Conwell, Y.
A1  - Cox, C.
SP  - 328
EP  - 334
VL  - 6
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1064-7481
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00019442-199811000-00008
ID  - ref1
ER  -