Characteristics of Suicide Attempters and Nonattempters with Schizophrenia in a Rural Community

In this study, demographic and clinical characteristics of individuals with schizophrenia in a Chinese rural community who had attempted suicide at some time in their lives and those who had not made a suicide attempt were compared. Among individuals with schizophrenia, subjects with (n = 38) and wi...

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Published in:Suicide & life-threatening behavior 2005-12, Vol.35 (6), p.694-701
Main Authors: Ran, Mao-Sheng, Xiang, Meng-Ze, Mao, Wen-Jun, Hou, Zai-Jin, Tang, Mu-Ni, Chen, Eric Yu-Hai, Chan, Cecilia Lai-Wan, Yip, Paul S. F., Conwell, Yeates
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Age Differences
Asian people
At Risk Persons
Biological and medical sciences
Catchment Area (Health)
China
China - epidemiology
Comparative Analysis
Data Analysis
Demography
Depression (Psychology)
Educational Attainment
Female
Foreign Countries
Hallucinations - epidemiology
Humans
Individual Characteristics
Intervention
Male
Medical sciences
Patients
Predictor Variables
Psychological Patterns
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychoses
Regression (Statistics)
Risk factors
Rural Areas
Rural Population - statistics & numerical data
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - diagnosis
Schizophrenia - epidemiology
Schizophrenic Psychology
Self Destructive Behavior
Severity of Illness Index
Suicide
Suicide, Attempted - statistics & numerical data
Suicides & suicide attempts
Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Summary:In this study, demographic and clinical characteristics of individuals with schizophrenia in a Chinese rural community who had attempted suicide at some time in their lives and those who had not made a suicide attempt were compared. Among individuals with schizophrenia, subjects with (n = 38) and without (n = 472) a lifetime history of suicide attempt were assessed with the Present State Examination. The results indicate that attempters had a significantly younger age, higher level of education, higher rate of lifetime depressed mood and hopelessness, and a larger number of positive symptoms than patients without suicide attempts. The logistic regression models also indicated that hopelessness, the number of positive symptoms and age were the most important predictors. Early interventions focusing on reducing hopelessness and controlling positive symptoms may help reduce the risk of suicide attempts among patients with schizophrenia.
ISSN:0363-0234
1943-278X
DOI:10.1521/suli.2005.35.6.694