Suicidal children grow up: rates and psychosocial risk factors for suicide attempts during follow-up. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • OBJECTIVE: Rates and psychosocial risk factors for suicide attempts during a 6 to 8-year follow-up period were compared for 25 predominantly prepubertal inpatient suicide attempters, 28 inpatient suicidal ideators, 16 nonsuicidal inpatients, and 64 nonpatients. METHOD: Standard research instruments were used to interview subjects and parents. Cox proportional hazard regression analyses were used to identify risk factors for a suicide attempt in the follow-up. RESULTS: No deaths occurred during follow-up. Suicide attempters were six times and suicidal ideators were three times more likely than were nonpatients to attempt suicide during follow-up. Poor social adjustment and mood disorder close to a recurrent suicide attempt were the strongest risk factors. CONCLUSIONS: Risk assessment should focus on identifying symptoms of mood disorders and impaired social adjustment in children with histories of suicide attempts and psychiatric hospitalization.

publication date

  • January 1, 1993

Research

keywords

  • Mental Disorders
  • Social Adjustment
  • Suicide, Attempted

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0027460728

PubMed ID

  • 8428862

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 32

issue

  • 1