TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Suicide and mental illness in parents and risk of suicide in offspring : A birth cohort study
JO  - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
A1  - Sørensen, HJ
A1  - Mortensen, Erik Lykke
A1  - Wang, August G.
A1  - Juel, Knud
A1  - Silverton, Leigh
A1  - Mednick, Sarnoff A.
SP  - 748
EP  - 751
VL  - 44
IS  - 9
N2  - BACKGROUND: A family history of completed suicide and psychiatric illness has been identified as risk factors for suicide. AIMS: To examine the risk of offspring suicide in relation to parental history of suicide and other parental risk factors. METHOD: The study population consisted of 7,177 adult offspring born 1959-1961 and their parents from the Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort. Cohort members and their parents who had committed suicide were identified in the Danish Causes of Death Registry (follow-up until December 31, 2005), while information on psychiatric hospitalisation history was obtained from the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register. RESULTS: Forty-eight cohort members, 77 mothers and 133 fathers had committed suicide during the follow-up. Independent of parental psychiatric illness and social status, parental suicide significantly increased suicide risk in offspring (hazard ratio 4.40 with 95% CI 1.81-10.69). A stronger effect of parental suicide was observed in offspring without a history of psychiatric hospitalisation. CONCLUSION: Parental history of suicide is a risk factor for suicide in offspring, but primarily in offspring without psychiatric hospitalisation.  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0933-7954
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-009-0495-5
ID  - ref1
ER  -