Suicide risk in a Portuguese non-clinical sample of adults
Eur. j. psychiatry
; 28(4): 230-241, oct.-dic. 2014. ilus, tab
Article
in English
| IBECS
| ID: ibc-132046
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ABSTRACT
Background and Objectives:
This exploratory study simultaneously tests the contribution of socio-demographic, clinical, distress, and personality variables for identifying suicide risk in a non-clinical sample.Methods:
A convenience sample of 810 adults ranging in age from 19 to 67 years (M =36.34, SD = 12.46) and living in various Portuguese regions participated. Their education varied from 6 to 21 years of schooling (M = 11.74, SD = 5.14). Participants responded to sociodemographic questions, the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire, the Center for the Epidemiological Studies of Depression Scale, and the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised.Results:
In the present sample, 4.3% of participants indicated past suicide attempts,27.9% reported some lifetime suicide ideation, and 6.4% indicated a past suicide plan. Depressive symptoms, having seen a psychologist or psychiatrist, self-criticism, and education discriminated between participants who had attempted suicide (n = 35) and those who had not attempted to die by suicide (n = 775). Depressive symptoms, having seen a psychologist or psychiatrist, self-criticism, psychiatric disease and age discriminated between participants who scored below (n = 650) and who scored equal to or above (n = 160) the cut-off score for the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised.Conclusions:
Results have implications for the assessment of suicide risk (AU)
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Collection:
National databases
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Spain
Database:
IBECS
Main subject:
Suicide
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Depression
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Suicidal Ideation
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Eur. j. psychiatry
Year:
2014
Document type:
Article
Institution/Affiliation country:
Queenʼs University/Canada
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University of Évora/Portugal