Risk for Suicidal Behavior After Psychiatric Hospitalization Among Sexual and Gender Minority Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The months following inpatient psychiatric hospitalization are a period of high risk for suicidal behavior. Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals have elevated risk for suicidal behavior, but no prior research has examined whether SGM inpatients have disproportionate risk for suicidal behavior following discharge from psychiatric hospitalization.

Objectives

To evaluate whether SGM patients have elevated risk for suicidal behavior following discharge from psychiatric hospitalization compared with heterosexual and cisgender patients and to examine whether differences in risk across groups were accounted for by demographic characteristics and clinical factors known to be associated with suicidal behavior.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospecti

SUBMITTER: Thoma BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10492186 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature