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Psychiatric diagnosis in self-poisoning patients

  • P. Urwin (a1) and J. L. Gibbons (a1)
Synopsis

The Present State Examination was administered to 539 patients who attended a casualty department after an act of self-poisoning during the course of a year. Computer analysis by means of the Catego program showed that 30% of the patients had insufficient symptoms to be considered as psychiatric ‘cases’. Fewer than 4% had symptoms of functional psychosis. About 60% of the patients were classed as depressed: on several indices this group was less severely ill than a group of depressives receiving psychiatric treatment. It is suggested that psychiatric treatment is essential for only a small proportion of self-poisoning patients. The effectiveness of psychiatric treatment for the large group of patients with depressive disorders of minor severity and probably short duration has still to be evaluated.

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2Address for correspondence: Professor J. L. Gibbons, Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton S09 4PE.
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