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. 1983 Apr-Jun;25(2):121–128.

SUICIDAL COMMUNICATION IN PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS

R Anand 1,✉, JK Trivedi 2, SC Gupta 3
PMCID: PMC3012335  PMID: 21847269

Abstract

In this enquiry a cross-sectional study of hospitalized psychiatric patients was undertaken to assess prevalence and nature of suicidal behaviour. We have been able to delineate these subjects into three categories i.e. non-communicators, partial communicators and definite communicators on the basis of their scores upon 31ucid.il intent questionnaire. A follow up study of these patients which is in progress may further provide knowledge about relationship between predictive criterion and their final outcome.

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