Archives of general psychiatry
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Arch. Gen. Psychiatry
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Arch. Gen. Psychiatry · Dec 2007
High income, employment, postgraduate education, and marriage: a suicidal cocktail among psychiatric patients.
Studies dating back over 100 years have shown that the risk of suicide in the general population is associated with low income, unemployment, educational underachievement, and singleness. However, little is known about the association between suicide risk and these factors in psychiatric patients. ⋯ Suicide risk is generally associated with low income, unemployment, educational underachievement, and singleness, but this study suggests that the opposite is true among psychiatric patients. However, loss of income, labor market status, and marriage increase the suicide risk.