1RMO cum Clinical Tutor, Department of Psychiatry, Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, Burdwan, West Bengal, India
2Assisstant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, Burdwan, West Bengal, India
3RMO cum Clinical Tutor, Department of Psychiatry, Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, Burdwan, West Bengal, India
4RMO cum Clinical Tutor, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Pychiatry, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Online published on 1 October, 2015.
Suicide, the self murder, is often carried out as a result of despair, the cause of which is frequently attributed to a psychiatric disorder. Depression is the most prevalent condition, found in the background of suicide. Other mood disorders like bipolar affective disorders are also found frequently. Suicidal ideation, a major precursor of attempted and completed suicide, is a measure to predict future suicide.
To compare suicidal behaviour of major depressive disorder and bipolar affective disorder and to find correlation between disease severity and suicidal ideation.
A cross-sectional study in a tertiary medical college, comprising of total 200 patients with the diagnosis of various mood disorder (Major depression, Bipolar depression and Bipolar mania)
Bipolar, depressed patients had higher severity of depression (mean-37.04 ±5.123), statistical positive correlation found between BSI Score and BDI Score (value-+0.700) (p=0.000) and statistical negative correlation found between BSI Score and YMRS Score (value--0.314) (p=0.026)
With increase in depression severity suicidal ideation increases and with increase in manic severity suicidal ideation decreases.
Suicide, Suicidal ideation, Major depression, Bipolar depression, Bipolar mania
