Outpatient Suicide: A Descriptive Study of 172 Outpatient Suicides Reported by New York State Mental Health Programs in 1982

Copies of this report are available from: State of New York Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled, 99 Washington Avenue, Suite 1002, Albany, New York 12210. The study examined a wide range of demographic, clinical, & circumstantial variables on 172 outpatient suicides. The suicide rate among psychiatric outpatients is 8 to 10 times higher than among the general population. Half the victims lived alone or in a boarding home or hotel & only 1/3 attended a day/vocation program.