Psychiatric Morbidity in a Sample of Accidents
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 130 (3) , 244-252
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.130.3.244
Abstract
The coroner9s records of 110 accidental deaths resulting from poisoning, drowning and falling were examined for evidence of mental illness. Sixty per cent were classified as mentally ill before they died, depression, drug dependence and alcoholism accounting for over three-quarters of the diagnoses. Deaths given accident verdicts should be included in the study of the mortality of the mentally ill.Keywords
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