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    Are hospital suicides on the increase? (1988)
    Springer
    Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology 23 (1988), S. 207-216 
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    ISSN: 1433-9285
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The first part of our paper provides an overview of literature on clinic suicides in regard to suicide numbers and rates. The main focus of attention is on articles from the last 30 years. The second part examines the hypothesis that there exists a linear increase in both the number of admission and the absolute number of suicides, and thus a connection between increases in admissions and discharges and in suicides. Using selected examples, we found less where there was a direct connection between patient turnover and the number of suicides (with the suicide rate remaining constant), and others in which suicide rates also increased, seeming to indicate the influence of other factors. A list of selected studies from the psychiatric literature of the 19th century suggests that clinic suicide is one of the oldest problems known to psychiatry and that suicide rates calculated from 19th century data are by and large comparable to those of today. Clinic suicide would thus appear to be a problem of psychiatry in general and not only one of modern psychiatry or of modern methods of treatment.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01787819
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    Predictors for the social adjustment of first admitted psychiatric patients (1986)
    Springer
    European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience 236 (1986), S. 174-178 
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    ISSN: 1433-8491
    Keywords: Psychiatric patients ; Follow-up ; Social adjustment ; Outcome prediction
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary In a prospectively designed follow-up study of 258 first admitted psychiatric patients, 1 year after discharge 224 patients and 175 significant others were asked about the social adjustment of these patients and some predictors for this aspect of outcome could be identified. The sample consisted of five different diagnostic groups: organically caused psychiatric diseases, schizophrenic psychoses, affective psychoses, neurotic or personality disorders and alcohol or drug dependency. The study shows that statements about the social adjustment of psychiatric patients largely depend on the diagnostic group, both with respect to degree of adjustment and the predictors. Schizophrenic patients were found to be less well socially adjusted than the other patients, with the exception of the alcohol- and drug-addicted patients. For schizophrenic patients, post-hospital social adjustment was primarily determined by indicators of mental illness, such as psychopathological symptoms and length of hospitalization. The social adjustment of addicted patients was primary influenced by vocational variables. For the patients with organic psychiatric disorders, affective psychoses or neurotic/personality disorders, prediction by pre-hospital or hospital variables did not prove to be very useful.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00380946
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