Treatment and suicide in severe depression: a case-control study of antidepressanttherapy at last contact before suicide.
Journal Title: The Journal of ECT - Year 2001, Vol 16, Issue 4
Abstract
Treatment at last contact in 89 persons with severe depression who committedsuicide was compared with treatment at a corresponding date in 89 matched persons who did not commitsuicide. No difference in electroconvulsive therapy use or prescription of antidepressant medicationcould be shown between those who committed suicide and those who did not. Neither was there a differencein response to treatment as measured in rates of improvement with treatment. However, continued treatmentwith antidepressant medication after electroconvulsive therapy was more common in the persons who didnot commit suicide than in those who did (46% versus 13%, p < 0.025). None of the persons who committedsuicide who were followed during the 6 months before death had received continued treatment after electroconvulsivetherapy. This study lends statistical support to the importance of continuing treatment after electroconvulsivetherapy to prevent suicide.
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L Brådvik, M Berglund
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Treatment and suicide in severe depression: a case-control study of antidepressanttherapy at last contact before suicide.
Treatment at last contact in 89 persons with severe depression who committedsuicide was compared with treatment at a corresponding date in 89 matched persons who did not commitsuicide. No difference in electroconvulsive...