Premenstrual symptoms and luteal suicide attempts.
| Autor: | Baca-Garcia E; Department of Psychiatry, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain., Diaz-Sastre C, Ceverino A, García Resa E, Oquendo MA, Saiz-Ruiz J, de Leon J |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience [Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci] 2004 Oct; Vol. 254 (5), pp. 326-9. |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00406-004-0506-1 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: If premenstrual symptoms (PMS) are temporally and specifically associated with suicidal attempts, suicide attempts in women with PMS should occur more frequently in the luteal phase. Method: In a general hospital, 125 fertile female suicide attempters (and 83 blood donors as controls) with regular menstrual cycles were prospectively studied. A retrospective DSM-IV diagnosis of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) was made. Results: Attempts during the luteal phase were not more frequent in females with PMDD (34%,23/68) than in those without PMDD (35%, 20/57). The sample had enough power to detect medium and large effect sizes. As expected, there was a significantly higher frequency of PMDD in suicide attempters than in the controls (54% vs 6%; Fisher's exact test, p < or = 0.001). Conclusion: This study was limited by the use of retrospective PMDD diagnosis but suggests that PMDD may not be associated with suicidal acts during the luteal phase,when PMS are present. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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