Biomedical subjects
G Sonneck
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[Epidemiology of suicide in Austria 1980 to 1990].
This article investigates the suicide rates in Austria from 1980 to 1990 according to age groups and the methods used. In the years investigated the overall suicide rate increased until 1986, followed by a decline until 1990. The suicide rate in women shows a gradual linear increase with age, whilst in men there is a biphasic curve with a steep increase in teenagers and young men in their early twenties, followed by a plateau and a second steep increase as from 65 years of age, whereby the increase from "60-64 years" to the age group "over 85 years" is 134%. Regarding the age groups the decline over the past years in women is biggest in the groups "35-39 years" and "65-69 years", with men a decrease is present in the age groups from 20 to 50 years. Concerning the methods used, hanging is the most common mode of suicide in both women (36.4%) and men (48.8%). Suicide in the elderly--particularly in old men--which has increased internationally over the past few decades is targeted as the major area for vigorous preventive measures in Austria.
Suicide prevention and the community. A state institute for suicide prevention and crisis intervention.
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[Suicidal acts and crisis intervention. Summary of the results from the 7th Donausymposium on Psychiatry].
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[Crisis intervention technic].
Based on the various principles of crisis intervention, a model of it is designed which divides it into four phases: (1) beginning of intervention (established of a relationship, assessment of the client's condition, estimate of the gravity of the problem, and design of the plan of action along the lines of minimal difference); (2) actual intervention; (3) conclusion of the crisis intervention, and (4) follow-up. This system conveys a good insight into the activities of a crisis centre, and it can contribute to the diffcult and up to now unsolved problem of how such institutions can be evaluated.
[Intracranial and spinal hemorrhage in haemophilia (author's transl)].
Among 234 hemophiliacs, 14 patients (5.9%) with intracranial and 1 patient (0.4%) with intramedullary hemorrhage were observed and examined. The average age at the time of hemorrhage was 17 years in patients with severe hemophilia and 43 years in patients with moderate hemophilia. The patients with mild hemophilia and intracranial bleeding were 5 and 58 years old, respectively. Eight intracerebral, 3 subdural and 4 subarachnoid hemorrhages were encountered. In 7 cases bleeding was posttraumatic and in 5 it occurred spontaneously. In 2 patients hemorrhage followed a sudden increase of intracranial pressure. In 1 patient reliable data could not be obtained. Four of the 8 patients with intracerebral bleeding died; all survivors displayed some residual neurological abnormalities. All patients suffering from subarachnoid bleeding recovered completely. No serious complications were encountered after 3 lumbar punctures, 5 cerebral angiographies and after 1 myelography. Only in 1 case with an acquired inhibitor did a local hematoma develop at the site of puncture for the angiography. The same diagnostic procedures should be performed after substitution therapy with anti-hemophiliac plasma in a hemophiliac without inhibitor as in non-hemophiliacs if intracranial or intramedullar bleeding is suspected. In hemophiliacs with an anticoagulant, angiography or lumbar puncture should be performed only in exceptional cases.
[Psychotic acts of suicide (author's transl)].
The suicide rate is higher among those who suffer from a physically based psychosis than among the average population. The proportion of endogenous psychoses in suicides is assessed at about one third, and in attempted suicide about 15 per cent. Of the endogenous psychoses, schizophrenia and depression are the principal diseases causing suicidal actions, of the physically based psychoses, all diseases which cause disturbances of this kind, cerebral vascular sclerosis and epilepsy being particularly frequently represented.