Journal article
Suicide Screening in a Primary Care Setting at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Psychosomatics (Washington, D.C.), v 37(5), pp 413-424
1996
PMID: 8824120
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Abstract
Seven-hundred and three patients from a general medical outpatient clinic at a Veterans Affairs hospital completed the SCREENER, a brief self-report questionnaire that screens for psychi atric disorders. The authors found that 7.3% of the patients had suicidal ideation. The younger and white patients were at increased risk. The risk was increased twelvefold in those patients with subjectively fair or poor mental health, sevenfold in the patients with a history of mental health treatment, and fourfold in the patients with fair or poor perceived physical health. When major depression was controlled for, anxiety and substance abuse disorders continued to show an association with suicidal ideation. The suicidal patients made more visits to their primary care physician. Screening patients for anxiety disorders and drug abuse, as well as depression, is a better approach for identifying suicidal ideation in primary care settings than screening for depression alone and may help prevent suicide and suicide attempts.
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- Title
- Suicide Screening in a Primary Care Setting at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Creators
- Jennifer D. Lish - Drexel UniversityMark Zimmerman - Drexel UniversityNeil J. Farber - Drexel UniversityDavid T. Lush - Drexel UniversityMary Ann Kuzma - Drexel UniversityGary Plescia - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Psychosomatics (Washington, D.C.), v 37(5), pp 413-424
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- MD (Doctor of Medicine) Program
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1996VE74000002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0029787858
- Other Identifier
- 991019169577704721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychiatry
- Psychology