The Lifetime Risk of Suicide in Schizophrenia
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- 1 March 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 62 (3) , 247-253
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.62.3.247
Abstract
In 1977, Miles1 reviewed 34 studies that observed people with schizophrenia and estimated a 10% lifetime risk of suicide. Cited more than 270 times, this study has informed the writers of most major psychiatry and suicidology texts.2-6 In addition, a widely cited 1990 review by Caldwell and Gottesman7 references 2 long-term schizophrenia follow-up studies by Bleuler8 and Tsuang,9 wherein 12.8%8 and 10.1%9 of the deceased had died by suicide, to argue that the rate is 10% to 13%.Keywords
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