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Which deliberate self-poisoning patients are most likely to make high-lethality suicide attempts?
- Source :
- International Journal of Mental Health Systems
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- Background The risk/rescue rating scale (RRRS) assesses the lethality of a suicide attempt, which is defined as the probability of inflicting irreversible damage. We assessed the lethality of suicide attempts using the RRRS and identified the socio-demographic profiles of patients who achieved high lethality in deliberate self-poisoning (DSP). Methods A retrospective study was conducted to evaluate DSP patients who visited the emergency department of a tertiary teaching hospital between 2000 and 2011. The data included socio-demographic information, clinical variables, risk factors (e.g., the method used, whether consciousness was impaired, toxicity, reversibility and whether treatment was required) and rescue factors (e.g., location, who initiated the rescue, the probability of discovery, the accessibility of rescue, and delay until discovery). The high-risk group consisted of patients with 11–15 risk points, whereas patients in the low-rescue group had 5–11 risk points. We examined the characteristics of high-lethality suicide attempts (high-risk/low-rescue group). Results A total of 1114 patients were enrolled in this study. Pearson’s correlation analysis showed that the total risk score for patients with DSP was negatively associated with the total rescue score (r = −0.201, p
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- medicine.medical_specialty
Suicide attempt
business.industry
Research
Health Policy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Poison control
Retrospective cohort study
Emergency department
medicine.disease
Logistic regression
Rescue factors
Suicide prevention
Psychiatry and Mental health
Risk factors
Rating scale
Internal medicine
Injury prevention
medicine
Phychiatric Mental Health
Deliberate self-poisoning
Medical emergency
Pshychiatric Mental Health
business
Suicide attempts
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- ISSN :
- 17524458
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Mental Health Systems
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8ddb03dcdc1b79759f171f310bc2f9aa