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| Suicide in older people without psychiatric disorder | | Author(s) | Daniel Harwood, Keith Hawton, Tony Hope |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 21, no 4, April 2006 |
| Pages | pp 363-367 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Suicide ; Personality ; Mental health [elderly] ; Ill health ; Midlands [England]. |
| Annotation | The psychological characteristics of 23 subjects aged 60+ who had died from suicide and did not have a psychiatric disorder at the time of death were determined using psychological autopsy interviews with relatives and friends. The sample is from the authors' previous 2001 study in four counties of central England between 1995 and 1998. Three of the sample had significant psychiatric symptoms, one had a diagnosis of personality disorder, and ten had significantly abnormal personality traits. Physical illness and recent bereavement were the commonest life problems associated with suicide. Five of the sample were suffering from severe physical illness at the time of death. Sub-syndromal psychiatric disorder may be less important that personality factors, physical illness and recent bereavement as important contributory factors to suicide in older people not suffering from psychiatric illness at the time of death. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060609207 A |
| Classmark | EV: DK: D: CH: 82X |
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