Sociodemographic and clinical profile of women with psychic disorders and suicidal behaviour
Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of women kept under observation at the Izhevsk psychoneurologic dispensary with a history of completed suicides (73 observations) and suicide attempts (166 observations) over a ten-year period (1996-2005) were investigated using a clinicoepidemiological research method. Similar groups of suicide-prone men were used as comparisons. A number of statistically significant differences were identified in the investigated clinical characteristics among suicidal men and women and also among women who committed attempted and completed suicides. An assumption is made on the basis of data obtained that there exist certain differences in the mechanisms shaping suicidal behaviour in mentally impaired men and women as well as differences in mechanisms underlying development of diverse forms of women's suicidal behaviour.