Suicide Attempts Following Acute Depression

Personality traits of patients with attempted suicide: a hospital based study

“…32 Abnormal personality has been repeatedly shown to be an important risk factor for suicide attempts not only in Western but also many Indian studies. 12,13,16,24,25,33 Cluster "B" was the predominant personality profile observed in the suicide attempters this study, with the most predominant type being Borderline personality (28%), followed by Dissocial (17%) and Histrionic personality traits (15%). There was also a significant association (P<0.05) between personality traits and past attempts interval, i.e.…”

“…This finding is similar to several other studies and suggests that attempted suicide is a problem of young adults. [16][17][18] There were predominantly more males (54%) than females (46%) in our study. This is similar to many Indian studies that have reported a preponderance of males as compared to females.…”

Suicidal Ideation and Attempts Among Psychiatric Patients With Major Depressive Disorder

“…Those found to be important in several independent studies include a suicide attempt in the past (Avery & Winokur, 1978;Corbitt et al, 1996), or in the family (Paykel et al, 1975;Crook et al, 1975;Linkowski et al, 1985;Roy, 1993b;Malone et al, 1995), high severity or early onset of depression (Bulik et al, 1990;Roy, 1993b;Malone et al, 2000), comorbid personality disorder (Paykel & Dienelt, 1971;Friedman et al, 1983;Fyer et al, 1988;Corbitt et al, 1996;Van Gastel et al, 1997;Soloff et al, 2000), comorbid alcohol dependence or abuse (Bulik et al, 1990;Duggan et al;1991, Roy, 1993b, comorbid chronic physical illness (Duggan et al, 1991), younger age (Van Gastel et al, 1997;Castrogiovanni et al, 1998), marital isolation or discord (Crook et al, 1975;Bulik et al, 1990;Roy, 1993b), recent adverse life events (Paykel et al, 1975;Van Gastel et al, 1997), hopelessness (Rifai et al, 1994;Malone et al, 2000;Soloff et al, 2000) and, not unexpectedly, suicidal ideation (Bulik et al, 1990;Malone et al, 1995;. However, it remains controversial whether or not comorbid anxiety disorders do, in fact, increase (Lepine et al, 1993) risk of a suicide attempt (Noyes, 1991;Friedman et al, 1992;Allg...…”

Cognitive hostility and suicide

“…6 for a review of these early studies) or non-suicidal psychiatric patients (7)(8)(9), or suicide completers with accident victims (10). Some prospective studies were carried out on relatively small sample of depressed patients (11,12), and then focused on suicide attempts, being underpowered to examine completed suicides. To our knowledge, only one large-scale cohort study found hostility to predict suicide (13).…”