Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-xbtfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T07:13:10.115Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Danger periods for suicide in patients under treatment1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

J. B. Copas ,
D. L. Freeman-Browne  and
A. A. Robin
J. B. Copas
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Essex, and Runwell Hospital, near Wickford, Essex
D. L. Freeman-Browne
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Essex, and Runwell Hospital, near Wickford, Essex
A. A. Robin
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Essex, and Runwell Hospital, near Wickford, Essex
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Synopsis

Using statistical methods, the hypothesis that suicide occurs either at the beginning or at the end of a spell of treatment is shown to fit the available data.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , November 1971 , pp. 400 - 404
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Clouston, Sir T. S. (1898). Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases. 5th edn.Churchill: London.Google Scholar
Guze, S. B., and Robins, E. (1970). Suicide and primary affective disorders. British Journal of Psychiatry, 117, 437–438.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Henderson, D. K., and Gillespie, R. D. (1927). A Textbook of Psychiatry. Oxford University Press: London.Google Scholar
Mayer-Gross, W., Slater, E., and Roth, M. (1969). Clinical Psychiatry. 3rd edn.Bailliere: London.Google Scholar
Robin, A. A., Brooke, E. M., and Freeman-Browne, D. L. (1968). Some aspects of suicide in psychiatric patients in Southend. British Journal of Psychiatry, 114, 739–747.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Seager, C. P., and Flood, R. A. (1965). Suicide in Bristol. British Journal of Psychiatry, 111, 919–932.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Stengel, E. (1955). The risk of suicide in states of depression. Medical Press, 1955, 234, 182–184.Google Scholar
Stengel, E. (1964). Suicide and Attempted Suicide. Penguin: Harmondsworth.Google Scholar