Why people take overdoses: a study of psychiatrists' judgements.

@article{Bancroft1983WhyPT,
  title={Why people take overdoses: a study of psychiatrists' judgements.},
  author={J. H. J. Bancroft and Keith Hawton},
  journal={The British journal of medical psychology},
  year={1983},
  volume={56 (Pt 2)},
  pages={
          197-204
        }
}
  • J. Bancroft, K. Hawton
  • Published 1 June 1983
  • Psychology, Medicine
  • The British journal of medical psychology
There was considerable agreement between 50 psychiatrists in their choices of reasons to explain patients' overdoses after reading transcripts of interviews with self-poisoning patients. The reasons attributed in each case were similar to those chosen by three psychiatrists in an earlier study. Most psychiatrists chose more than one reason for each case. Multidimensional scaling analysis of the psychiatrists' choices across the cases suggested four groups of reasons: (a) directed at some… 
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