Resource Tag: SPAIN

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This study reanalyzed, using data mining techniques, a published study of variables that predicted psychiatrists’ decisions to hospitalize in 509 cases of adult suicide attempters who were assessed in a Spanish emergency department. 5 analyses done by psychiatric researchers using traditional statistical techniques classified 72%-88% of patients correctly. The model developed by researchers with no […]

This study investigated differences among immigrants & natives regarding access & pathways to psychiatric care in a Spanish hospital, psychiatric admission rates, length of stay, continuity of care, & main diagnoses. Immigrants accounted for 13.0% of consultations to the psychiatric emergency room & 11.0% of admissions to the psychiatric hospitalization unit. Immigrants more often sought […]

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The study examined homelessness in adults presenting to a psychiatric emergency service in Spain, identified the differences between homeless & non-homeless patients in the use of this service, & analyzed the factors associated with homelessness & the decision to hospitalize. Data came from 11,578 consecutive admissions in Barcelona, Spain over a 4-year period. 4.8% of […]

The existence of lunar influence on the frequency of suicide was tested by means of a permutation test. A total of 897 suicides reported by the Anatomical Forensic Institute of Madrid were analyzed by a permutation test, a direct application of Fisher’s ideas. Noteworthy in this study were the testing method used & the accuracy […]

Time-series analyses for data collected in Spain for 1950-1985 indicated that marriage & birth rates were positively associated with suicide rates. (3 refs.)

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The goals of this study were to compare aggression scores in suicide attempters & healthy volunteers in Madrid & New York City, & to determine whether higher aggression scores are associated with greater medical lethality of suicide attempts. Depressed suicide attempters from New York City made attempts of greater lethality & reported more lifetime aggressive […]

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This study assessed psychiatric medications & their potential lethality in a representative sample of 456 suicide attempts by medication overdose. The ratio between dose taken & maximum prescription dose recommended was used to evaluate the medication toxicity. The most frequently used drugs in overdose were identified & their lethality assessed. All patients who overdosed on […]

Based on their own earlier findings, the authors tested their hypothesis that the proportion of suicide attempters during the menses is significantly higher than the expected probability in the general population using a replication naturalistic study of 120 fertile adult female suicide attempters with regular menstruation cycles during a 1-year period in the emergency room […]

The authors investigated the sociodemographic & clinical characteristics of 62 patients who were admitted to medical or surgical departments in a general hospital as a result of attempting suicide by jumping from buildings. All met criteria for at least 1 psychiatric diagnosis, the most frequent being schizophrenia, followed by depression. Most patients with schizophrenia presented […]

This letter explores the interaction of psychiatric diagnoses on the relationship between menstrual cycle phase & suicide attempts. The authors performed a new group analyses on an already published study. (5 refs)

The authors present the results of a two-stage epidemiological study in the general population on the island of Formentera (Balearic Islands, Spain), which used the 28-item General Health Questionnaire in the first stage (n=697) & the Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry in the second (n=242). Medical illnesses diagnosed in the subjects at the second […]

Ninety-two patients with a true Major Depressive Disorder were distributed into three groups: 1) patients having made a recent serious suicide attempt; 2) patients having suicidal ideas but who had not made a recent suicide attempt; & 3) patients having no thoughts of, or attempts at, suicide. They were all given a questionnaire. Patients in […]

This manuscript is based on the premise that there are 3 means of escape from stress: psychosis, drug abuse, & suicide. The author uses the work of Lazarus & Folkmann to identify theoretical explanations for drug abuse & suicide. Coping skills are then discussed in relation to these topics. The suggestion is made that coping […]

A retrospective study was conducted to compare schizophrenic patients who had attempted suicide with other nonschizophrenic suicide attempters. It was found that schizophrenic patients were younger & generally unmarried, usually used violent methods, made more attempts while in a psychiatric center, & presented a lower incidence of concurrent organic illness than the nonschizophrenics. A large […]