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Am J Psychiatry 1994; 151:1063-1068
Copyright © 1994 by American Psychiatric Association
Suicide and mental disorders: a case-control study of young men
AD Lesage, R Boyer, F Grunberg, C Vanier, R Morissette, C Menard-Buteau and M Loyer
Centre de recherche Fernand-Seguin, Hopital Louis-H. Lafontaine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
OBJECTIVE: By means of the psychological autopsy method and a case- control
design, the authors examined the association of specific mental disorders
and comorbidity with suicide among young men. METHOD: Seventy- five men
aged 18-35 years whose deaths were adjudicated as completed suicides by
coroners of greater Montreal and Quebec City were matched to 75 living
young men for age, neighborhood, marital status, and occupation. For each
subject in both groups a key respondent best acquainted with the subject
was interviewed by clinicians using standardized schedules. Information
from the coroner and medical records was also collected. Two experienced
psychiatrists, blind to outcome, established best-estimate DSM-III-R
diagnoses. RESULTS: Six- month prevalence rates for all axis I diagnoses
for the suicide and comparison groups were 88.0% and 37.3%, respectively;
major depression was present in 38.7% and 5.3%, alcohol dependence in 24.0%
and 5.3%, psychoactive substance dependence in 22.7% and 2.7%. Borderline
personality disorder was identified in 28.0% and 4.0%, respectively. Of the
suicide subjects, 28.0% had at least two of the following disorders: major
depression, borderline personality disorder, and alcohol or drug
dependence; the rate was 0.0% among the comparison subjects. CONCLUSIONS:
In young men, completed suicide is linked to specific mental disorders,
namely, major depression, borderline personality disorder, and substance
abuse. Comorbidity involving any of these disorders is frequently
associated with completed suicide.
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