Find suicide prevention resources relating to schizophrenia and suicide.
| Schizophrenia.com - Preventing Suicide - http://www.schizophrenia.com/newsletter/buckets/suicide.html Notes that suicide is unfortunately the number one cause of death for people with schizophrenia - but it is highly preventable. Read for details. - [Read more] |
| Schizophrenia Suicide Risk Scale (SSRS), The: development and initial validation - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11278137&dopt=Abstract Browse to find an abstract of this study that was carried out at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Turku Central Hospital. - [Read more] |
| About.com - About Schizophrenia - http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/schizophrenia/a/sz1.htm Delivers a guide on this disease that makes the prediction of suicide difficult. - [Read more] |
| Decreasing Suicide in Schizophrenia - http://psychiatrictimes.com/p010520.html Offers an article by Leslie Knowlton and Psychiatric Times staff. View risk factors. - [Read more] |
| Management of Suicide Risk in Schizophrenia, The - http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/5793 View this Medscape Today resource that was written by Donald Addington, MBBS. - [Read more] |
| Fact Sheet - Schizophrenia - http://www.psychlaws.org/generalresources/Fact5.htm Reveals suicide as the number one cause of premature death among people with schizophrenia, with an estimated 10 to 13 percent killing themselves. Read about symptons. - [Read more] |
| HealthyPlace.com - Schizophrenia and Suicide - http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Thought_Disorders/schizo/nimh/suicide.asp Notes that the prediction of suicide in people with schizophrenia can be especially difficult. Read for details. - [Read more] |
| Symptoms, Subtype, and Suicidality in Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders - http://www.schizophrenia.com/depres/suicide.res.htm Read an abstract of a paper that reviews the relationship between depression, suicide and schizophrenia. - [Read more] |
| BBC News - Schizophrenia drug 'could cut suicides' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2653317.stm Article reveals researchers claim that as many as 100 lives a year could be saved in the UK by the wider use of a drug to treat schizophrenia. - [Read more] |
| Lifetime Risk of Suicide in Schizophrenia, The - http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/62/3/247 Find this article from the archives of General Psychiatry. Browse to see conclusions offered. - [Read more] |
| Suicide and schizophrenia - http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/mental/suischiz.html Provides a review of a paper by BA Palmer et al. entitled "The lifetime risk of suicide in schizophrenia." - [Read more] |
| Suicide / Schizophrenia: Consequences of Acute and Chronic Cannabis Use 1996 - http://members.optusnet.com.au/~apfdfy/Suicide.html Read a paper by Herschel Mills Baker presented to Professor Pierre Baume, Director, Australian Institute for Suicide Research Prevention. - [Read more] |
| Mortality and cause of death in schizophrenia - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8275890&dopt=Abstract Offers a review, in English, of this article in French published by Service Hospitalo-Universitaire de Sante Mentale et de Therapeutique, Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, Paris. - [Read more] |
| Drug could cut schizophrenia suicide - http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/15/1042520671620.html David Wroe, of the Australian publication The Age, reports that an anti-psychotic drug that is rarely used because it can impair the immune system could cut the schizophrenia suicide rate if the drug were more widely available, according to a study. - [Read more] |
| Schizophrenia, suicide and the serotonin story - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8583968&dopt=Abstract Shares an abstract of a paper published by the Medical Research Unit, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. - [Read more] |
| China Daily - Schizophrenia adds to risk of suicide - http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/09/content_380663.htm Reports on an epidemiological study conducted by the Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Centre. - [Read more] |
| Suicide in schizophrenia — how can research influence training and clinical practice? - http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/25/2/46 Read a opinion and debate piece offered by The Royal College of Psychiatrists in this bulletin. - [Read more] |
| AstraZeneca - Referanser - http://www.astrazeneca.no/azmedica/CNS/0603_suicid-referanser.html Norwegian site offers a selection of references related to suicide and schizophrenia. - [Read more] |
| Depression and Suicide in Schizophrenia - http://www.desertpacific.mirecc.va.gov/mindview-archive/suicide-and-depression-archive.shtml Become familiar with this resource offered by the United States Department of Veteran Affairs. - [Read more] |
| Suicide in schizophrenia: a retrospective case-control study of 51 suicides - http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/24505/ Read an abstract of this study to identify factors associated with suicide in patients with schizophrenia who required inpatient admission and to compare these factors with the risk profile of patients with other diagnoses also requiring inpatient care. - [Read more] |
| Suicide for Mental Healthcare Service Users - http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/003265.html Browse to find this handbook, in PDF format, offered by Schizophrenia Daily News Blog. - [Read more] |
