Psychiatric diagnoses in 3275 suicides: a meta-analysis

Arsenault-Lapierre, Geneviève; Kim, Caroline; Turecki, Gustavo

doi:10.1186/1471-244X-4-37

BMC Psychiatry

Table 2 Description of the 27 studies included in this meta-analysis

From: Psychiatric diagnoses in 3275 suicides: a meta-analysis

Study	Year	Origin	Diagnostic criteria	Methods	Number of diagnoses	n Suicide	With a Dx (%)	n Control	with a Dx (%)	Matched
Appleby et al.[151]*	1999	England	ICD-10	Official records and interviews	Multiple	84	76 (90%)	64	17 (27%)	Living ± 5 year and sex
Apter et al.[145]*	1993	Israel	DSM-III	Official records and interviews	Principal	43	35 (81%)
Asgard U.[147]*	1990	Sweden	RDC	Official records and interviews	Principal	104	99 (95%)
Cavanagh et al.[14]	1999	Scotland	DSM-III	Official records and interviews	Principal	45	44 (98%)
Cheng et al.[16]*	1995	Taiwan	DSM-III-R	Official records and interviews	Multiple	116	114 (98%)	226	130 (58%)	Living ± 5 years, sex, area of residence
Conwell et al.[156]*	1996	USA	DSM-III-R	Official records and interviews	Multiple	141	127 (90%)
Foster et al.[142,144]	1997/1999	Ireland	DSM-III-R	Official records and interviews	Multiple	118	106 (90%)	117	30 (26%)	List of deceased's GP Age, gender, marital status
Harwood et al.[17]*	2001	England	ICD-10	Official records and interviews	Multiple	100	93 (93%)	54	N/A	Natural deaths Age and sex
Hawton et al.[10]	2002	England	ICD-10	Official records and interviews	Multiple	42	38 (90%)	84	6 (7%)	Living nurses ± 10 years, specialty and seniority
Henriksson et al.[11]	1993	Finland	DSM-III-R	Official records and interviews	Multiple	229	225 (98%)
Houston et al.[12]	2001	England	ICD-10	Official records and interviews	Multiple	47	40 (85%)
Lesage et al.[150]	1994	Canada	DSM-III-R	Official records and interviews	Multiple	75	69 (92%)	75	N/A	Living Neighbourhood, age, marital status and occupation
Phillips et al.[9]*	2002	China	DSM-IV	Interviews with informants	Principal	519	325 (63%)	536	93 (17%)	Accidental deaths Geographical areas
Rich et al.[143]	1986	USA	DSM-III	Official records and interviews	Multiple	283	258 (91%)
Runeson B.[153]	1989	Sweden	DSM-III-R	Official records and interviews	Principal	58	57 (98%)
Shaffer et al.[18]*	1996	USA	DSM-III	Official records and interviews	Multiple	119	108 (91%)
Shaffi et al.[13]*	1988	USA	DSM-III	Official records and interviews	Multiple	21	20 (95%)	21	11 (52%)	Living friends Sex, age, race, education, religion, income, and father's education
Vijayakumar et al.[159]*	1999	India	DSM-III-R	Official records and interviews	Principal	100	88 (88%)	100	14 (14%)	Living SES, sex and ± 2 years
Waern et al.[154]*	2002	Sweden	DSM-IV	Official records and interviews	Multiple	85	82 (96%)	153	28 (18%)	Living Sex, ± 2 years
Boardman et al.[152]	1999	England	ICD-10	Multiple official records	Multiple	212	151 (71%)	212	40 (19%)	Unnatural deaths ± 5 years and sex
Cantor et al.[157]	1989	Australia	DSM-III-R	Multiple official records	Principal	47	41 (87%)
Groholt et al.[149]*	1997	Norway	DSM-III-R	Multiple official records	Multiple	121	90 (74%)
Thacore et al.[158]	2000	Australia	ICD-9	Multiple official records	Principal	75	46 (65%)
Graham et al.[15]	1992	Australia	DSM-III	Multiple official records	Multiple	136	120 (88%)
Brent et al.[148]	1999	USA	DSM-III	Interviews with informants	Multiple	140	115 (82%)	131	32 (24%)	Living Age, race, gender, country and SES
Cerel et al.[155]	2000	USA	RDC	Interviews with informants	Multiple	15	13 (87%)	201	70 (35%)	Non-suicide bereaved family
Arato et al.[146]*	1987	Hungary	RDC	Interviews with informants	Principal	200	162 (81%)

* Based on axis I disorders only.
N/A – information not available or not clear

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