Understanding the Complex of Suicide in Depression: from Research to Clinics.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Amongst psychiatric disorders, major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most prevalent, by affecting approximately 15-17% of the population and showing a high suicide risk rate equivalent to around 15%. The present comprehensive overview aims at evaluating main research studies in the field of MDD at suicide risk, by proposing as well as a schematic suicide risk stratification and useful flow-chart for planning suicide preventive and therapeutic interventions for clinicians.

Methods

A broad and comprehensive overview has been here conducted by using PubMed/Medline, combining the search strategy of free text terms and exploded MESH headings for the topics of 'Major Depressive Disorder' and 'Suicide' as following: ((suicide [Title/Abstract]) AND (major depressive disor

SUBMITTER: Orsolini L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7113180 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature