Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Suicide attempts and related factors in patients admitted to a general hospital: a ten-year crosssectional study (1997-2007) | Alberdi-Sudupe et al. BMC Psychiatry 2011 11 51 http 1471-244X 11 51 BMC Psychiatry RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Suicide attempts and related factors in patients admitted to a general hospital a ten-year crosssectional study 1997-2007 Jesus Alberdi-Sudupe1 Salvador Pita-Fernández2 Sonia M Gomez-Pardinas1 Fernando Iglesias-Gil-de-Bernabé1 Jorge García-Fernández1 Gonzalo Martinez-Sande1 Sara Lantes-Louzao1 and Sonia Pértega-Díaz2 Abstract Background Suicide and suicide attempts represent a severe problem for public health services. The aim of this study is to determine the socio-demographic and psychopathological variables associated with suicide attempts in the population admitted to a General Hospital. Methods An observational-descriptive study of patients admitted to the A Coruna University Hospital Spain during the period 1997-2007 assessed by the Consultation and Liaison Psychiatric Unit. We include n 5 234 admissions from 4 509 patients. Among these admissions n 361 were subsequent to a suicide attempt. Admissions arising from a suicide attempt were compared with admissions occurring due to other reasons. Multivariate generalised estimating equation logistic regression models were used to examine factors associated with suicide attempts. Results Adjusting by age gender educational level cohabitation status being employed or unemployed the psychiatric diagnosis at the time of the interview and the information on previous suicide attempts we found that the variables associated with the risk of a suicide attempt were age psychiatric diagnosis and previous suicide attempts. The risk of suicide attempts decreases with age OR . Psychiatric diagnosis was associated with a higher risk of suicide attempts with the highest risk being found for Mood or Affective Disorders OR followed by Personality Disorders OR and Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders OR . The strongest single predictive factor for suicide attempts was
