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Suicidality and depression among adult patients admitted in general medical facilities in Kenya
AIM: To document Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) II suicidal symptoms among patients admitted to Kenyan non-psychiatric general medical facilities METHODS: All consenting adults admitted within a period of 4 weeks at 10 general medical facilities in Kenya were interviewed for suicidal symptoms and d...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-9-7 |
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author | Ndetei, David M Khasakhala, Lincoln I Mutiso, Victoria Mbwayo, Anne W |
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description | AIM: To document Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) II suicidal symptoms among patients admitted to Kenyan non-psychiatric general medical facilities METHODS: All consenting adults admitted within a period of 4 weeks at 10 general medical facilities in Kenya were interviewed for suicidal symptoms and depression using the BDI-II. RESULTS: In all, 2,780 patients responded to item 9 (suicidal symptoms of the BDI-II). The prevalence of all BDI-II suicidal symptoms combined was 10.5%. Thoughts of 'killing oneself but have not carried them out' accounted for 9% of the suicidal symptoms. The younger age group had the highest prevalence of suicidal symptoms and the oldest age group had the least prevalence of suicidal symptoms. The more depressed the patients were on the overall BDI-II score, the higher the prevalence of suicidal symptoms. CONCLUSION: On average 1 out of 10 of the patients had suicidal symptoms, more so in younger than the older people and in the more depressed. These symptoms had not been clinically recognised and therefore not managed. This calls for clinical practice that routinely enquires for suicidal symptoms in general medical wards. |
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spelling | pubmed-28310402010-03-03 Suicidality and depression among adult patients admitted in general medical facilities in Kenya Ndetei, David M Khasakhala, Lincoln I Mutiso, Victoria Mbwayo, Anne W Ann Gen Psychiatry Primary research AIM: To document Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) II suicidal symptoms among patients admitted to Kenyan non-psychiatric general medical facilities METHODS: All consenting adults admitted within a period of 4 weeks at 10 general medical facilities in Kenya were interviewed for suicidal symptoms and depression using the BDI-II. RESULTS: In all, 2,780 patients responded to item 9 (suicidal symptoms of the BDI-II). The prevalence of all BDI-II suicidal symptoms combined was 10.5%. Thoughts of 'killing oneself but have not carried them out' accounted for 9% of the suicidal symptoms. The younger age group had the highest prevalence of suicidal symptoms and the oldest age group had the least prevalence of suicidal symptoms. The more depressed the patients were on the overall BDI-II score, the higher the prevalence of suicidal symptoms. CONCLUSION: On average 1 out of 10 of the patients had suicidal symptoms, more so in younger than the older people and in the more depressed. These symptoms had not been clinically recognised and therefore not managed. This calls for clinical practice that routinely enquires for suicidal symptoms in general medical wards. BioMed Central 2010-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2831040/ /pubmed/20205916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-9-7 Text en Copyright ©2010 Ndetei et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Primary research Ndetei, David M Khasakhala, Lincoln I Mutiso, Victoria Mbwayo, Anne W Suicidality and depression among adult patients admitted in general medical facilities in Kenya |
title | Suicidality and depression among adult patients admitted in general medical facilities in Kenya |
title_full | Suicidality and depression among adult patients admitted in general medical facilities in Kenya |
title_fullStr | Suicidality and depression among adult patients admitted in general medical facilities in Kenya |
title_full_unstemmed | Suicidality and depression among adult patients admitted in general medical facilities in Kenya |
title_short | Suicidality and depression among adult patients admitted in general medical facilities in Kenya |
title_sort | suicidality and depression among adult patients admitted in general medical facilities in kenya |
topic | Primary research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-9-7 |
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