Psychosis patients are most likely to commit suicide in the first three years after diagnosis. Photo: Handout Psychosis patients are most likely to commit suicide in the first three years after diagnosis. Photo: Handout
Psychosis patients are most likely to commit suicide in the first three years after diagnosis. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong /  Health & Environment

Early intervention for psychosis patients cuts suicide risk by half, 12-year study in Hong Kong finds

Rate cut by more than 50 per cent in programme that got patients to a mental health professional in just two weeks, but risk was still more than double the international average

Topic |   Hong Kong health care and hospitals
Emily Tsang
Emily Tsang

Updated: 11:35pm, 7 Apr, 2018

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Psychosis patients are most likely to commit suicide in the first three years after diagnosis. Photo: Handout Psychosis patients are most likely to commit suicide in the first three years after diagnosis. Photo: Handout
Psychosis patients are most likely to commit suicide in the first three years after diagnosis. Photo: Handout
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