Abstract
Address: 1Community Mental Health Services, Caritas St. Poelten, Dr. Karl Renner Promenade 12, A-3100 St. Poelten, Austria, 2Division of Social Psychiatry, Vienna Medical University, Wahringer Gurtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, 3Justizanstalt Mittersteig, Mittersteig 25, A-1050 Vienna, Austria and 4Department of Medical Statistics, Vienna Medical University, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Austria * Corresponding author
Highlights
Few risk factors and indicators of vulnerability for suicide in custody are known so far
Within a large epidemiological investigation, a case-control-study was conducted to investigate the relevance of criminal history, psychiatric morbidity and social integration for suicide in prison
All suicides in all Austrian correctional institutions between January 1st, 1975, and December 31st, 1999 were investigated
Summary
Address: 1Community Mental Health Services, Caritas St. Poelten, Dr Karl Renner Promenade 12, A-3100 St. Poelten, Austria, 2Division of Social Psychiatry, Vienna Medical University, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, 3Justizanstalt Mittersteig, Mittersteig 25, A-1050 Vienna, Austria and 4Department of Medical Statistics, Vienna Medical University, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Published: 19 December 2007 BMC Psychiatry 2007, 7(Suppl 1):S18 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-7-S1-S18. World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Thematic Conference. Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review Thomas W Kallert, John Monahan, Juan E Mezzich Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-224X-7-S1-info.pdf
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