psychiatric diagnoses, trauma, and suicidiality精神病诊断、创伤和suicidiality.pdfVIP

Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Open Access Psychiatric diagnoses, trauma, and suicidiality Silje K Floen†1 and Ask Elklit*2 Address: 1BUP for Nordhordland, Kvassnesvegen 44, N-5914 Isdalstø, Norge and 2Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark Email: Silje K Floen - silje.kristine.floen@helse-bergen.no; Ask Elklit* - aske@psy.au.dk * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 20 April 2007 Received: 31 October 2006 Accepted: 20 April 2007 Annals of General Psychiatry 2007, 6:12 doi:10.1186/1744-859X-6-12 This article is available from: /content/6/1/12 © 2007 Floen and Elklit; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: This study aimed to examine the associations between psychiatric diagnoses, trauma and suicidiality in psychiatric patients at intake. Methods: During two months, all consecutive patients (n = 139) in a psychiatric hospital in Western Norway were interviewed (response rate 72%). Results: Ninety-one percent had been exposed to at least one trauma; 69 percent had been repeatedly exposed to trauma for longer periods of time. Only 7% acquired a PTSD diagnosis. The comor