Социално-демографски фактори и суициден риск – проучване при хоспитализирани психиатрични пациенти от мъжки пол
Socio-demographic Factors and Suicide Risk: a Study of Male Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study is to ascertain the suicide risk associated with some socio-demographic factors in male patients hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic –a population at a high risk of suicidal behavior. 164 hospitalized psychiatric patients are evaluated according to certain clinical characteristics, socio-demographic indicators and results from psychometric scales. Bivariate and multi-factor analyses are applied. According to the obtained results patients, who don’t cohabit with a partner show a higher level of suicide risk (total score from the A. Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation – SSI) and have attempted suicide more often. The lack of a partner is an independent predictor in both multi-factor models. Those living in a large town are more hopeless (total score from the A. Beck Hopelessness Scale– BHS) and with a higher suicide risk (SSI), than those living in a village. As the examined patients’ age increases so does the depression’s severity (total score from the Montgomery – Asberg Depression Rating Scale–MADRS), but not the suicide risk. These results can be of use when assessing suicide risk.

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