EPIDEMIOLOGY OF COMPLETED SUICIDES IN ORGANIC MENTAL DISORDERS

Abstract

As a result, a number of characteristics of the epidemiology of suicides in patients with these disorders were established: quantitative dominance of patients with organic mental disorders among all suicides with a psychiatric diagnosis; 2 times higher suicide rate compared to the general population; 1.5 times higher suicide rate among women compared to men; uneven growth in the frequency of suicides with age; an increase in suicidal activity in the spring and its decrease in the fall; a higher level of suicides in non-psychotic organic disorders in men and in organic psychoses and dementia in women.