Am J Psychiatry 1992; 149:394-395
Copyright © 1992 by American Psychiatric Association
Alcohol abuse, depression, and suicidal behavior in schizophrenia
SJ Bartels, RE Drake and GJ McHugo
New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Concord.
Alcohol use was correlated with depression and suicidal behavior in two
independent studies of schizophrenic outpatients. Depression alone
accounted for over 80% of the explained variance in suicidal behavior in
both studies; alcohol use alone and the correlation between depression and
alcohol use accounted for only small amounts of variance.