Self Poisoning: Could Psychiatric Management Be Improved?

A.A. Vidalis, H.N. Jungalwalla and G.H.B. Baker

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1987, vol. 33, issue 4, 312-315

Abstract: A retrospective case note study was made of 93 cases of deliberate self-poisoning admitted to the Casualty Department of a busy District General Hospital. The population under investigation is described in terms of age, sex and substance overdosed; it is broadly similar to populations described in most other studies of overdose. Our results show a higher incidence of functional psychoses (19.4%) than other studies, due to an excess of depressive psychosis in females. The main finding is that 84% of patients referred for psychiatric out-patient treatment either failed to attend or failed to complete the treatment. These results are discussed and suggestions made.

Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1177/002076408703300409

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