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Suicide Attempts and Related Factors in Patients Admitted to a General Hospital: a Ten-year Cross-sectional Study (1997-2007) by Jesús Alberdi-Sudupe; Salvador Pita-Fernández; Sonia M Gómez-Pardiñas; Fernando Iglesias-Gil-de-Bernabé; Jorge García-Fernández; Gonzalo Martínez-Sande; Sara Lantes-Louzao; Sonia Pértega-Díaz is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background Suicide and suicide attempts represent a severe problem for public health services. The aim of this study is to determine the socio-demographic and psychopathological variables associated with suicide attempts in the population admitted to a General Hospital. ## Methods An observational-descriptive study of patients admitted to the A Coruña University Hospital (Spain) during the period 1997-2007, assessed by the Consultation and Liaison Psychiatric Unit. We include n = 5,234 admissions from 4,509 patients. Among these admissions, n = 361 (6.9%) were subsequent to a suicide attempt. Admissions arising from a suicide attempt were compared with admissions occurring due to other reasons. Multivariate generalised estimating equation logistic regression models were used to examine factors associated with suicide attempts. ## Results Adjusting by age, gender, educational level, cohabitation status, being employed or unemployed, the psychiatric diagnosis at the time of the interview and the information on previous suicide attempts, we found that the variables associated with the risk of a suicide attempt were: age, psychiatric diagnosis and previous suicide attempts. The risk
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- Author
- Jesús Alberdi-Sudupe; Salvador Pita-Fernández; Sonia M Gómez-Pardiñas; Fernando Iglesias-Gil-de-Bernabé; Jorge García-Fernández; Gonzalo Martínez-Sande; Sara Lantes-Louzao; Sonia Pértega-Díaz
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1471-244X)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Psychology (Social Sciences)