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Description of the autolitic acts attended in a mental health unit in 2014

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

A.M. Alvarez Montoya ,
C. Diago Labrador  and
T. Ruano Hernandez
A.M. Alvarez Montoya*
Affiliation:
Algeciras, SpainAlgeciras, Spain
C. Diago Labrador
Affiliation:
Clinica Privada, Psiquiatria, Algeciras, Spain
T. Ruano Hernandez
Affiliation:
Clinica Privada, Psicologia Clinica, Malaga, Spain
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Objective

The objective of the study is the analysis and the description of patients who committed autolitic acts and were attended in a mental health hospital unit in 2014.

Method

We analyze the patient registry for the attended emergencies in our mental health hospital unit, extracting the following variables: gender distribution, age range, type of method applied in the attempt and diagnosis based on DSM-IV TR.

Results

The study reveals a larger share of autolitic acts in the feminine population between 14 and 69 years old. A total of 31 patients needed to be attended in an emergency hospital unit (11.74%). The most common method is the medical substance abuse (23 patients, 74.19% from the admitted patients in our Mental Health Hospitalary Unit). The diagnoses in order of frequency were; affective disorders (13 patients, 41.93%), personality disorders (8 patients, 25.80%), adaptative disorders (7 patients, 22.58%) and psychotics disorders (3 patients, 9.68%).

Conclusion

Our population-based sample confirms the epidemiologic data found in the consulted literature as well as in other population groups.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
EV1239
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S595 - S596
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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