Background: The aim of this multicenter study was to investigate the suicide risk in medically ill patients admitted to six Italian hospitals for whom a consultation-liaison intervention was requested. Methods: Participants completed socio-demographic and clinical report forms and the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire. Suicidality was assessed using the P4 screener that investigates the presence of Past suicide attempts, Plans to commit a suicide, Probability of completing suicide, and Preventive factors. Participants were categorized as being at no, low or high suicide risk. Univariate and multivariable associations of categorical and continuous variables with suicide risk were investigated using multinomial logistic regression. Results: Of the 641 inpatients, with mean age 60 years (SD = 16.9) and 49.2 % male, 13.2 % were at high suicidal risk (HR), 7.6 % low risk (LR) and 79.2 % no risk. Contacts with psychiatrists in the previous six months were associated with LR and HR (OR = 2.159 and 2.634, respectively), ongoing benzodiazepine use was associated with a threefold likelihood of LR (OR = 3.005), and the experienced intensity of illness symptoms was associated with LR and HR (OR = 1.257 and OR = 1.248, respectively). CL psychiatrists prescribed appropriate psychotropic drugs and activated liaison interventions and psychological support for the level of suicidal risk. Limitations: The use of self-report measures bears the risk of recall bias. Conclusions: Our findings based on psychiatric consultations in the general hospital underscore the need to include suicide risk in the routine assessment of inpatients referred to CL psychiatric services and to plan an appropriate management of suicidal risk after discharge.

Suicide risk in medically ill inpatients referred to consultation-liaison psychiatric services: A multicenter study / Balestrieri, M.; Rucci, P.; Murri, M. B.; Caruso, R.; D'Agostino, A.; Ferrari, S.; Nanni, M. G.; Palagini, L.; Pini, S.; Politi, P.; Rocchetti, M.; Zerbinati, L.; Grassi, L.. - In: JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS. - ISSN 0165-0327. - 319:(2022), pp. 329-335. [10.1016/j.jad.2022.08.113]

Suicide risk in medically ill inpatients referred to consultation-liaison psychiatric services: A multicenter study

Caruso R.;D'Agostino A.;Ferrari S.;
2022

Abstract

Background: The aim of this multicenter study was to investigate the suicide risk in medically ill patients admitted to six Italian hospitals for whom a consultation-liaison intervention was requested. Methods: Participants completed socio-demographic and clinical report forms and the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire. Suicidality was assessed using the P4 screener that investigates the presence of Past suicide attempts, Plans to commit a suicide, Probability of completing suicide, and Preventive factors. Participants were categorized as being at no, low or high suicide risk. Univariate and multivariable associations of categorical and continuous variables with suicide risk were investigated using multinomial logistic regression. Results: Of the 641 inpatients, with mean age 60 years (SD = 16.9) and 49.2 % male, 13.2 % were at high suicidal risk (HR), 7.6 % low risk (LR) and 79.2 % no risk. Contacts with psychiatrists in the previous six months were associated with LR and HR (OR = 2.159 and 2.634, respectively), ongoing benzodiazepine use was associated with a threefold likelihood of LR (OR = 3.005), and the experienced intensity of illness symptoms was associated with LR and HR (OR = 1.257 and OR = 1.248, respectively). CL psychiatrists prescribed appropriate psychotropic drugs and activated liaison interventions and psychological support for the level of suicidal risk. Limitations: The use of self-report measures bears the risk of recall bias. Conclusions: Our findings based on psychiatric consultations in the general hospital underscore the need to include suicide risk in the routine assessment of inpatients referred to CL psychiatric services and to plan an appropriate management of suicidal risk after discharge.
2022
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Suicide risk in medically ill inpatients referred to consultation-liaison psychiatric services: A multicenter study / Balestrieri, M.; Rucci, P.; Murri, M. B.; Caruso, R.; D'Agostino, A.; Ferrari, S.; Nanni, M. G.; Palagini, L.; Pini, S.; Politi, P.; Rocchetti, M.; Zerbinati, L.; Grassi, L.. - In: JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS. - ISSN 0165-0327. - 319:(2022), pp. 329-335. [10.1016/j.jad.2022.08.113]
Balestrieri, M.; Rucci, P.; Murri, M. B.; Caruso, R.; D'Agostino, A.; Ferrari, S.; Nanni, M. G.; Palagini, L.; Pini, S.; Politi, P.; Rocchetti, M.; Zerbinati, L.; Grassi, L.
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