Suicide of Psychiatric Inpatients 1970–1993 in Baden-Württemberg (Germany)

Authors: Wolfersdorf M.¹; Keller F.²; Kaschka W.P.²

Source: Archives of Suicide Research, Volume 3, Number 4, 1997 , pp. 303-311(9)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

The well-known fact of suicides of psychiatric inpatients during psychiatric hospital treatment is discussed according to national and international suicide data. In our Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Psychiatric Inpatient Suicide Study an increase in suicide and suicide rates from 1970 to 1993 can be shown with an mostly impressive increase in the 1970s and a plateau formation in the 1980s and constant figures in the 1990s. The group of 585 suicides (59% men, 41%women) is composed of: 26% primarily depressives, 53%schizophrenics (ICD-9); where the following features were notable presuicidal syndrome with depressive mood (68%), insight into illness (63%), feelings of suffering (64%), failure (57%), hopelessness (54%) and helplessness (54%).

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Nervenkrankenhaus Bayrenth, Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, D-95445 Bayrenth, Germany 2: Department of Psychiatry I, University of Ulm, State Mental Hospital Weissenau, D-88214 Ravensburg-Weissenau/Ulm, Germany

Publication date: 1997-01-01