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Association between changes in psychiatric services and increases in suicide rates.
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It is concluded that the changes in the psychiatric services are associated with an increase in the rate of suicide and that this increase may to some extent be a side effect of therapeutic methods introduced after 1965.Abstract:
The purpose of the study is to discover whether there is an association between changes in the psychiatric services offered by the largest psychiatric hospital in Iceland during the period 1955–1978 and changes in the rate of suicide. Marked changes occurred in the services after 1965. The rate of suicide in the patient population was significantly higher during 1965–1978 than during 1955–1964. It is concluded that the changes in the psychiatric services are associated with an increase in the rate of suicide and that this increase may to some extent be a side effect of therapeutic methods introduced after 1965. The conclusion is thought to imply the necessity for further evaluation of those therapeutic methods as applied in the hospital and increasing the application of measures for the prevention of suicide.read more
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Frequency of suicide on Gotland after systematic postgraduate education of general practitioners.
TL;DR: Programs aiming at giving GPs increased capacity and responsibility to treat patients with affective disorders do not increase the frequency of suicide and better primary treatment of patients with depressive disorders may reduce the suicide rate in a given area.
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Suicide in psychiatric patients in Denmark, 1971-81. I. Demographic and diagnostic description.
TL;DR: The overall suicide rates increased slightly faster than in the population without recent psychiatric hospitalization, and a sharp relative increase in suicide mortality in the provincial and particularly rural populations was noted.
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Clinical management of parasuicides: Critical issues in the 1990s
TL;DR: Clinically, risk assessment is a problematic area worthy of clear understanding, and there is a continuing confusion over the nature of affective disturbance associated with parasuicide and whether it might benefit from pharmacotherapy.
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Epidemiology of suicide in a Swedish county (Västerbotten) 1961-1980.
Lars Jacobsson,E. Renberg +1 more
TL;DR: The study confirms other studies which differentiate between an urban‐alienated pattern and a rural‐traditional pattern and there is a considerable increase in the suicide rate during the 1970's in the Västerbotten county alongside the development of a marked difference between different socio‐economic regions.
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To the Problem of an Institutional Suicide
TL;DR: The suicide rates of Canton of Berne exceed those of the whole country and a comparable increase has been registered, and at the same time a considerable increase of clinical suicides also has been observed at the Psychiatric University Clinic ofBerne.
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Nonparametric statistics for the behavioral sciences
TL;DR: This is the revision of the classic text in the field, adding two new chapters and thoroughly updating all others as discussed by the authors, and the original structure is retained, and the book continues to serve as a combined text/reference.
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Sperm-counts after vasectomy.
TL;DR: Because of the small proportion of cases where recanalization occurs it is recommended that in addition to the usual postvasectomy clearance a biennial or triennial check should be made to ensure that sterility is maintained.
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Suicide and Community Care
TL;DR: Although progress in the expansion of such services as hostels, day centres and social work has in many places been slow, the idea of a Community Service based on home care whenever possible has become a popular one and forms the basis of official planning in this country.
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Suicide in Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish psychiatric hospitals.
TL;DR: The suicide rate in the psychiatric hospitals of all three countries has risen markedly and may be regarded as a side-effect of modern therapeutic methods, with the introduction of the open-door policy, milieu therapy, ataractic drugs, rehabilitation pressure, and democracy processes.
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Zunehmende Suicide psychiatrischer Klinikpatienten: Realität oder Artefakt?
TL;DR: The klinischen Suicidanstieg last sich aber nicht durch eine zunehmende Vorlegung von Suiciden erklaren, die fruher infolge der geschlosseneren Behandlung erst nach der Hospitalisierung geschehen waren as discussed by the authors.
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