Comorbid personality disorder predicts suicide after major depression: a 10-year follow-up

• Published in: Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica Vol. 107; no. 6; pp. 436 - 440
• Main Authors: HANSEN, P. E. B, WANG, A. G, STAGE, K. B, KRAGH-SORENSEN, P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell 01.06.2003
• Subjects: Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biological and medical sciences; Comorbidity; Depression; Depressive Disorder - complications; Depressive Disorder - psychology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Mood disorders; Personality Disorders - psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Risk Factors; Suicide; Suicide - psychology; Denmark; Europe; Mood disorder; Social environment; Human; Melancholia; Multicenter study; Mental health; Depression; Suicide; Personality disorder; Concomitant disease; Follow up study; Risk factor; Diagnosis; Predictive factor; Subtype; Comparative study; Public health

To identify psychopathological predictors for suicide in a population of major depressed Diagnostic Statistical Manual-III (DSM-III) in-patients. A total of 210 previous participants in multicentre antidepressant drug trials, carried out in a randomized double-blind design, were followed prospective...