Psychosocial and Psychiatric Risk Factors for Suicide: Case-Control Psychological Autopsy Study

A case-control psychological autopsy was conducted in Taiwan among 113 consecutive suicides & 226 living matched controls to examine the individual & combined effects of psychosocial & psychiatric risk factors for suicide. Five major risk factors (loss event, suicidal behaviour in first-degree relatives, major depressive episode, emotionally unstable personality disorder, & substance dependence) were found to have independent effects on suicide from multivariate conditional logistic regression analysis. (24 refs.)