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Suicide after hospital contact for psychiatric assessment in Hong Kong: A long-term cohort study
- Source :
- Psychiatry Research. 264:266-269
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- There are few long-term studies on suicide in psychiatric settings in China. The objective of this study was to evaluate the long term suicide risk and its associated factors after the initial psychiatric assessment. Demographic and clinical data of adult subjects receiving psychiatric assessment between 1996 and 2000 in a district hospital in Hong Kong were retrieved from the hospital computer system. Data were matched with completed suicides before June 30 2015 as recorded by the Coroner's Office. From a total of 4078 subjects identified, there were 152 (3.7%) recorded suicides; one-fifth of suicides occurred within one year, and half within 5 years. Cox regression analysis revealed that the risk of suicide after the initial psychiatric assessment was positively associated with deliberate self-harm (Hazard ratio = 2.1; 95%CI = 1.5-3.0; p
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
China
medicine.medical_specialty
Psychiatric Department, Hospital
Suicide prevention
Coroner
Cohort Studies
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
Negatively associated
medicine
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
030212 general & internal medicine
Young adult
Psychiatry
Biological Psychiatry
Proportional hazards model
business.industry
Mental Disorders
Psychiatric assessment
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
030227 psychiatry
Hospitalization
Suicide
Psychiatry and Mental health
Schizophrenia
Self Mutilation
Hong Kong
Female
business
Self-Injurious Behavior
Follow-Up Studies
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01651781
- Volume :
- 264
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychiatry Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....734cfaf8baf744ec22963c3eccc4a7a1