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Lack of care
- Author:
- PARSONS Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(12), August 2001, p.416.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
A psychiatric patient known to be at high risk commits suicide. Can the trust be held responsible in law? Uses two case examples to provide an illustration of the circumstances that can potentially constitute a lack of care in the eye of the law.
The Wessex Recent In-Patient Suicide Study 1: case-control study of 234 recently discharged psychiatric patient suicides
- Authors:
- KING Elizabeth A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 178, June 2001, pp.531-536.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Psychiatric patients have a higher suicide risk following hospital discharge. Article aims to identify social, clinical and health-care delivery factors in recently discharged patients. Found that independent increased-risk factors were: not being White; living alone; history of deliberate self-harm (DSH); suicidal ideation precipitating admission; hopelessness; admission under different consultant; onset of relationship difficulties; loss of job; in-patient DSH; unplanned discharge; significant care professional leaving/on leave. Reduced-risk factors were: shared accommodation; delusions at admission; misuse of non-prescribed substances; and continuity of contact. Concludes that continuity of contact may reduce suicide risk. Discontinuity of care from a significant professional is associated with increased risk of suicide.
The Wessex Recent In-Patient Suicide Study 2: case-control study of 59 in-patient suicides
- Authors:
- KING Elizabeth A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 178, June 2001, pp.537-542.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Psychiatric patients have an elevated risk of suicide while in hospital. Article aims to compare social, clinical and health-care delivery factors in in-patient and out-patient suicides and their controls. Finds that there were seven independent increased-risk factors: history of deliberate self-harm, admission under the Mental Health Act, involvement of the police in admission, depressive symptoms, violence towards property, going absent without leave and a significant care professional being on leave. When compared with out-patient suicides, in-patients were more often female and male in-patients had a psychotic illness. Unlike the out-patient suicides, social factors were not found to be significant. Concludes that the characteristics of in-patient and out-patient suicides differ. Identified risk factors have relatively low sensitivity and specificity
Age of discontent
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.3.01, 2001, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that health and social services are not well equipped to help with depression among older people.
Risk of suicide in relation to income level in people admitted to hospital with mental illness: nested case-control study
- Authors:
- AGERBO E., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 10.2.01, 2001, pp.334-335.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Reports on Danish study investigating the association between socio-economic position and suicide risk.
The day the voices stopped: a memoir of madness and hope
- Authors:
- STEELE Ken, BERMAN Claire
- Publisher:
- Basic Books
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 257p.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Steele died at 51, just after completing this highly personal but clear-headed account of his life as a schizophrenic. His parents' denial of his illness, which struck suddenly when he was 14, hampered them and him in seeking help and in understanding the dangers his condition might entail, and thus his experience of his illness was punctuated by several suicide attempts and violent attacks. There were also a few bright spots - the occasional knowledgeable, sympathetic doctor or positive and educational hospital programme, amid the despair and hopelessness that usually surrounded him. During the 32 years that interior voices overwhelmed his thoughts and actions, Steele moved back and forth across the country and in and out of hospitals and worked at odd jobs, including an unfortunate stint of prostitution. His account of the day the voices stopped will surely remain with everyone who reads it, and the whole book should inform and affect other victims of severe mental illness and their families.
Children and adolescents who try to harm, hurt or kill themselves: a report of further analysis from the national survey of mental health of children and adolescents in Greta Britain in 1999
- Authors:
- MELTZER Howard, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office for National Statistics
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 70p.
- Place of publication:
- Newport
The main aim of this report is to present prevalence rates of self-harm among children and adolescents aged 5-15 in England, Scotland and Wales during the first half of 1999. The way the questions were phrased means that it is difficult to distinguish between self-harm with the intention of committing suicide and self-harm without that intention, i.e. self-mutilation. Therefore, most of the analysis in this report is presented by source and covers any attempt by children to harm, hurt or kill themselves. Information was collected on 83% of the 12,529 children eligible for interview from up to three sources resulting in at least some data for 10,438 children and adolescents aged 5-15 in Great Britain. According to parents, approximately 1.3% of 5-10 year olds had ever tried to harm, hurt or kill themselves. The lowest rate, 0.4% was found among 5-7 year old girls rising to 2.1% of 8-10 year old boys.The rate of self harm among the sample of young children with no mental disorder was 0.8%. The rate increased dramatically to 6.2% of children diagnosed as having an anxiety disorder and 7.5% of those who had a conduct disorder, hyperkinetic disorder or a less common mental disorder.
Adolescent suicide risk and peer-related violent behaviours and victimisation
- Authors:
- EVANS William P., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 16(12), December 2001, pp.1330-1348.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This study seeks to better understanding the link between peer-related violence and suicide risk among youth. The study uses data gathered from Arizona, Nevada, and Wyoming, where the highest rates of adolescent suicide in the United States are found. Higher levels of reported suicide risk were prominent among the multiethnic, urban, and female respondents. Male and female respondents who perpetrated violence by initiating fights, threatening to use weapons, and using weapons to assault others were more likely to be classified in the high-risk suicide group than those who did not. General results were similar for victims and those witnessing violence. Implications for preventing programming and future research are discussed.
How to recognise, assess and treat depression in young people
- Author:
- AFZAL Ghazala
- Journal article citation:
- Community Nurse, 7(6), July 2001, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Argues that a combination of drug and psychosocial therapies are needed to tackle the growing prevalence of depression in young people and to prevent long-term morbidity associated with the condition.
Safety first: preventing suicide
- Authors:
- APPLEBY Louis, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(9), May 2001, pp.311-314.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Looks at how many suicides take place in hospital or shortly after discharge - and many could prevented.