Clinical profiles of serious suicide attempters consecutively admitted to a university-based hospital: a cluster analysis study

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Autor(a) principal: Rapeli,Claudemir Benedito
Data de Publicação: 2005
Outros Autores: Botega,Neury José
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry (São Paulo. 1999. Online)
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Resumo: OBJECTIVE: To verify the presence of different groups of medically serious suicide attempters who had more clinical or surgical seriousness and required admission to a general hospital. METHODS: 121 patients admitted consecutively were assessed. A questionnaire containing items on the patient characteristics and psychometric scales to assess the suicidal intent and lethality were used. A cluster analysis was performed using the K-means method. RESULTS: Three groups were identified: 1) 43 subjects (mostly female) characterized by self-poisoning with medication and low suicidal intent, with highly impulsive suicide attempts; 2) 53 subjects (mostly males) who ingested pesticides and presented both moderate degrees of lethality and suicidal intent; 3) 17 subjects (predominantly males) who used more violent methods and presented high levels of lethality and suicidal intent. CONCLUSIONS: Grouped data of these inpatients could be misleading for follow-up research purposes as our findings indicate that there are relatively distinct clinical profiles among suicide attempters admitted to a general hospital.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Clinical profiles of serious suicide attempters consecutively admitted to a university-based hospital: a cluster analysis study
title Clinical profiles of serious suicide attempters consecutively admitted to a university-based hospital: a cluster analysis study
spellingShingle Clinical profiles of serious suicide attempters consecutively admitted to a university-based hospital: a cluster analysis study
Rapeli,Claudemir Benedito
Suicide
Suicide, attempt
Depression
Cluster analysis
Length of stay
Hospitals, general
title_short Clinical profiles of serious suicide attempters consecutively admitted to a university-based hospital: a cluster analysis study
title_full Clinical profiles of serious suicide attempters consecutively admitted to a university-based hospital: a cluster analysis study
title_fullStr Clinical profiles of serious suicide attempters consecutively admitted to a university-based hospital: a cluster analysis study
title_full_unstemmed Clinical profiles of serious suicide attempters consecutively admitted to a university-based hospital: a cluster analysis study
title_sort Clinical profiles of serious suicide attempters consecutively admitted to a university-based hospital: a cluster analysis study
author Rapeli,Claudemir Benedito
author_facet Rapeli,Claudemir Benedito
Botega,Neury José
author_role author
author2 Botega,Neury José
author2_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Rapeli,Claudemir Benedito
Botega,Neury José
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Suicide
Suicide, attempt
Depression
Cluster analysis
Length of stay
Hospitals, general
topic Suicide
Suicide, attempt
Depression
Cluster analysis
Length of stay
Hospitals, general
description OBJECTIVE: To verify the presence of different groups of medically serious suicide attempters who had more clinical or surgical seriousness and required admission to a general hospital. METHODS: 121 patients admitted consecutively were assessed. A questionnaire containing items on the patient characteristics and psychometric scales to assess the suicidal intent and lethality were used. A cluster analysis was performed using the K-means method. RESULTS: Three groups were identified: 1) 43 subjects (mostly female) characterized by self-poisoning with medication and low suicidal intent, with highly impulsive suicide attempts; 2) 53 subjects (mostly males) who ingested pesticides and presented both moderate degrees of lethality and suicidal intent; 3) 17 subjects (predominantly males) who used more violent methods and presented high levels of lethality and suicidal intent. CONCLUSIONS: Grouped data of these inpatients could be misleading for follow-up research purposes as our findings indicate that there are relatively distinct clinical profiles among suicide attempters admitted to a general hospital.
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