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CLINICAL FEATURE OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR IN PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION
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Objective: To study of clinical feature of suicidal behavior in patients with depression. Subject and method: 36 patients with depression was treated at Department of psychiatry, Military Hospital 103. Results: The patients with disease duration from 1-3 years accounted for the highest rate with 69.45%; Patients with recurrences of two and three times accounted for 58.32% and the prevalence of severe depression accounted for 61.11%. The prominent symptoms were depressed mood, anhedonia, feeling of sadness, suicidal ideation with the same rate (100%). In terms of thought form, slow rhythm accounted for 88.89% and alogia accounted for 80.56%. Most of patients with severe depression experiencing only one time of suicidal behavior accounted for 58.34%; the suicidal methods were varied, in which, overdosing psychotic and sedative medications was the highest number (30.55%), time of suicidal behavior being at day accounted for 72.22%, and suicidal accommodation being at home was accounted for 69.45%. Conclusion: Suicidal behaviors in patients with depression were varied and directly threatened to patients’ lives.
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depression, suicidal behaviors.
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