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Suicidal behavior in patients with current or past panic disorder: five years of prospective data from the
M G Warshaw1, R T Dolan, M B Keller
1Department of Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, MA, USA. shaw@maveric.org
Objective:
The authors' goals were to examine predictors of suicidal behavior and provide guidelines for assessing suicide risk in patients with panic disorder.
Method:
Four hundred ninety-eight patients with panic disorder were followed for 5 years. Survival analysis was used to examine variables correlated with prospectively observed suicidal behavior.
Results:
Subjects had a 0.06 probability of suicidal behavior during follow-up. Affective disorders, substance abuse, eating disorders, personality disorders, and being female were risk factors. Two subjects were suicidal in the absence of risk factors; both developed depression during follow-up.
Conclusions:
Panic disorder is not associated with suicidal behavior in the absence of other risk factors.