Adolescent psychiatric in-patients
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Deaths among child and adolescent psychiatric patients.
Of 1,206 patients treated during the period 1970-1980 in a department of child psychiatry in a large city in Sweden 24 (2%) (14 boys and 10 girls) had died by the end of 1981. Twenty-one of these (88%) died of "injuries following external violence and poisoning", of whom 15 (63%) were suicides. Twenty subjects (83%) had grown up in surroundings characterised by one or more psychosocial stress f...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.176.2.121