SUICIDE DEATH OF SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS

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Satoshi Furukawa

Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan

: Int J Ment Health Psychiatry

Abstract

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Introduction: The treatment of schizophrenia is improvement. Some doctors think schizophrenia patients can live until mean age if they do not choose suicide death. Objectives and Method: Almost all suicide deaths are examined in the medical examiner’s office. We examined suicide death cases in schizophrenia patients for two years (2014-2015) in Osaka city (JAPAN). Results: The number of schizophrenia patient’s death was 262 (male; 153, female; 109). Suicide death cases were 79 (male; 44, female; 35). The mean age of suicide death was 50.3 years in male and was 48.5 in female. The way of suicide was jumping from tall buildings (42 cases), hanging (21 cases), sting themselves (four cases), jumping in front of trains (four cases), drug poisoning, (four cases), drowning (two cases), carbon monoxide poisoning (one case) and asphyxiation (one case). There were 20 cases we could not decide the cause of death was whether suicide or not. Conclusion: We showed statistic investments about suicide death of schizophrenia patients. It is difficult to distinguish whether the suicide death or not.

Biography

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Satoshi Furakawa has completed his PhD at the age of 32 years from Shiga University of Medical Science. He had published more than 15 papers in reputed journals and presented 10 times in the international conferences. Satoshi Furakawa is major in Internal medicine, Emergency medicine and forensic medicine.

Email: 31041220@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp