Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.26332/seemedj.v2i1.44
Suicidality in Depressive Patients
Andrijana Mišković
orcid.org/0000-0002-5321-0920
; Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia
Dunja Degmečić
; Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia; University Dpt.of Psychiatry, University Hospital Centre Osijek
Abstract
Aim: The aim of this research was to examine the incidence of suicides in patients with depressive disorders who were hospitalized at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Clinical Hospital Centre Osijek during 2015 and 2016, and to determine the relationship between suicidality and parameters measured in this research.
Methods: This research included 325 depressive patients hospitalized in the Psychiatric Clinic of the Clinical Hospital Centre Osijek during 2015 and 2016. Data were collected from medical records of patients diagnosed with depressive disorders. To collect data, the authors used a questionnaire drafted for the purposes of this research requiring the following information to be filled in: age, gender, employment status, marital status, qualifications, number of children, the existence of suicide attempts or repeated suicide attempts, the way in which suicide was attempted, number of hospitalizations and treatment duration in years, number of suicide attempts, motivation for attempted suicide, psychiatric heredity, comorbidity.
Results: Of the total number of respondents (n=325), 119 (36.6%) patients had suicidal behavior pattern in the past, significantly more in 2015 (Fisher’s exact test, P<0.001), at present the suicidal behavior pattern had 134 patients, significantly more in 2015 (Fisher’s exact test, P=0.04). Eighty (24.6%) respondents had attempted suicide. Thirty-three (41.3%) out of the 80 (24.6%) respondents who had attempted suicide were men and 47 (58.8%) were women. The existence of psychiatric heredity or attempted suicide in the family does not affect the suicide attempt of the respondents.
Conclusion: Suicidal behavior patterns in depressive patients hospitalized in the Psychiatric Clinic of the Clinical Hospital Centre Osijek during 2015 and 2016. are common.
Keywords
depressive disorders; suicidal ideation; hospitalization
Hrčak ID:
213818
URI
Publication date:
27.11.2018.
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