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Self Poisoning: Could Psychiatric Management Be Improved?

A.A. Vidalis

H.N. Jungalwalla

G.H.B. Baker

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.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 33, No. 4, 312-315 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/002076408703300409
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