Year: 1990 Source: Annales Medico-Psychologiques, v.148, no.4, (April 1990), p.411-414 SIEC No: 19960444

Research on risk factors among psychiatric patients has developed considerably, however, there are numerous methodological problems. Attempts to establish global factors in prediction have been unsuccessful. Through the analysis of 37 publications from 1978 to 1988, the authors review the main suicide risk factors identified among treated psychiatric patients. In French (37 refs.)