Affiliation:
1. University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, (USWR), Razi Psychiatric Hospital, Postal Code: 18669- 58891, P.O. Box: 18735-569, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Background:
Suicidal behavior is seen in the context of a variety of mental disorders.
While many believe that, in general, first-episode psychosis is a particularly high-risk period for
suicide, no general agreement regarding higher prevalence of suicide in first-episode psychosis is
achievable.
Objective:
In the present study, suicides and suicide attempts among psychiatric in-patients have
been evaluated to assess the general profile of suicidal behavior among native psychiatric inpatients
and any relationship between serum cholesterol level and suicidal behavior.
Methods:
Five acute academic wards, which have been specified for admission of first episode adult
psychiatric patients, and five acute non-academic wards, which have been specified for admission of
recurrent episode adult psychiatric patients, were selected for the current study. All inpatients with
suicidal behavior (successful suicide and attempted suicide, in total), during the last five years
(2013-2018), were included in the present investigation. Also, the assessment of serum lipids, including
triglyceride, cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein, was done ,
for comparing the suicidal subjects with non-suicidal ones.
Results:
Among 19160 psychiatric patients hospitalized in Razi psychiatric hospital during a sixtymonths
period, 63 suicidal behaviors, including one successful suicide and sixty-two suicide attempts,
were recorded by the safety board of hospital. The most frequent mental illness was bipolar
I disorder, which was significantly more prevalent in comparison with other mental disorders
(p<0.04, p<0.02, p<0.007, and p<0.003 in comparison with schizophrenia, depression, personality
disorders and substance abuse, respectively). Self-mutilation, self-poisoning and hanging were the
preferred methods of suicide among 61.11%, 19.44% and 19.44% of cases, respectively. In addition,
no significant difference was evident between the first admission and recurrent admission inpatients,
totally and separately, particularly with respect to psychotic disorders. Besides, with respect to different
components of serum lipids, no specific or significant pattern was evident.
Conclusion:
While in the present study, the suicidal behavior was significantly more evident in
bipolar disorder in comparison with other psychotic or no-psychotic disorders, no significant difference
was evident between the first admission and recurrent admission of psychiatric inpatients.
Moreover, no significant relationship between suicidal behavior and serum lipids was found .
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health
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