Time to suicide after psychiatric inpatient discharge: a nationwide Swedish survival analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The period immediately following psychiatric inpatient care is recognized as a time of elevated risk of suicide, yet little is known about factors that influence how soon suicide occurs after discharge.

Aim

To examine the timing of suicide among persons after psychiatric discharge and identify sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with a shorter time to death by suicide.

Methods

We included all adults in Sweden who died by suicide in 2015 and who had been discharged from psychiatric inpatient care during the last three months of life (n = 140). Sociodemographic and clinical variables were extracted from electronic medical records, including contextual factors from the last hospitalization (involuntary care, documented suicide risk, unplanned disc

SUBMITTER: Berge J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12930994 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature