Suicide attempts and medications. A retrospective case-control study (Suicide attempt and medications)

Study type

• Study topic:
  Disease /health condition

  Other
• Study topic, other:
  Disease/Epidemiology study
• Study type:
  Non-interventional study
• Scope of the study:
  Assessment of risk minimisation measure implementation or effectiveness
• Data collection methods:
  Secondary use of data

Non-interventional study

• Non-interventional study design:
  Case-control

Study drug and medical condition

• Medical condition to be studied:
  Suicide attempt

Population studied

• Short description of the study population:
  Patients with suicidal tendency of Psychiatric Unit in Spain.
• Age groups:
  Adults (18 to < 46 years)

  Adults (46 to < 65 years)

  Adults (65 to < 75 years)

  Adults (75 to < 85 years)

  Adults (85 years and over)
• Estimated number of subjects:
  2000

Study design details

• Main study objective:
  To learn the risk os suicidal behaviour associated with several medications
• Data analysis plan:
  Logistic regression