Suicide Rates and Subgroups With Elevated Suicide Risk Among Patients With Psychiatric Disorders: A Nationwide Cohort Study in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the distinctly high risk of suicide among patients with psychiatric disorders, little is known regarding the nationwide rates and risk factors for suicide among individual subgroups of patients with psychiatric disorders. This study aimed to assess differences in suicide rates and identify risk factors for suicide across multiple psychiatric diseases using data from a nationally representative cohort in Korea.

Methods

Six groups of incident patients with psychiatric disorders, namely those with drug use disorder (DUD), alcohol use disorder (AUD), schizophrenia (SCZ), bipolar disorder (BD), depressive disorder (DD), or other affective disorders (OADs), were extracted from the National Health Information Database and followed up. Suicide rates and risk facto

SUBMITTER: Kang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11473262 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature