Risk factors for suicide and undetermined death among in‐patient alcoholics in Scotland

摘要: Approximately 32,000 patients, representing all those discharged alive from inpatient psychiatric care for alcoholism in Scottish hospitals between 1974 and 1983, were traced up to 10 years by means of a national record-linkage study order ascertain the frequency suicide undetermined deaths. The cumulative mortality these causes was 1.17% at 5 2.01% years. Several risk factors investigated, using survival analysis techniques. Sex, age, social class (males only) marital status not found be useful predictors, but different secondary diagnoses recorded discharge associated with major variations outcome. Attention is drawn prognostic importance diagnosis both affective disorders personality disorders, some implications findings are noted concerning attempts construct population models linking alcoholism, demographic characteristics suicide. Language: en