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Suicidal risk and executive functions in major depressive disorder: a study protocol.
Roca, Miquel; Del Amo, Antonio Riera-López; Riera-Serra, Pau; Pérez-Ara, Mª Angeles; Castro, Adoración; Roman Juan, J; García-Toro, Mauro; García-Pazo, Patricia; Gili, Margalida.
Afiliação
  • Roca M; Institut Universitari d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut (IUNICS-IDISBA), University of Balearic Islands, Carretera de Valldemossa, km 7.5, 07122, Palma, Spain. mroca@uib.es.
  • Del Amo AR; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain.
  • Riera-Serra P; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain.
  • Pérez-Ara MA; Institut Universitari d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut (IUNICS-IDISBA), University of Balearic Islands, Carretera de Valldemossa, km 7.5, 07122, Palma, Spain.
  • Castro A; Institut Universitari d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut (IUNICS-IDISBA), University of Balearic Islands, Carretera de Valldemossa, km 7.5, 07122, Palma, Spain.
  • Roman Juan J; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain.
  • García-Toro M; Institut Universitari d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut (IUNICS-IDISBA), University of Balearic Islands, Carretera de Valldemossa, km 7.5, 07122, Palma, Spain.
  • García-Pazo P; Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain.
  • Gili M; Institut Universitari d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut (IUNICS-IDISBA), University of Balearic Islands, Carretera de Valldemossa, km 7.5, 07122, Palma, Spain.
BMC Psychiatry ; 19(1): 253, 2019 08 16.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31420027
BACKGROUND: Suicide is a serious public health concern. Depression is the main gateway to suicidal behavior. The already established relationship between depression and suicidal risk should now focus on the investigation of more specific factors: recent studies have suggested an association between vulnerability to suicidal behavior and neurocognitive alterations, a nuclear symptom of depression. This project aims to identify alterations in the Executive Functions (EF) of patients suffering a first depressive episode that might constitute a risk factor for suicidal ideation, suicidal attempts and suicide, to allow for more adequate suicide prevention. METHODS: Prospective longitudinal design involving two groups (first depressive episodes with and without alterations in their EF) and four repeated measures (0, 6, 12 and 24 months). The estimated minimum sample size is 216 subjects. The variables and measurement instruments will include socio-demographic variables, clinical variables (age of illness onset, family and personal antecedents, psychopathological and medical comorbidity, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and completed suicides, severity of depression, including melancholic or atypical, remission of the depressive episode), and neuropsychological variables (EF and decision-making processes evaluated through the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB)). DISCUSSION: First and foremost, the identification of clinical and neuropsychological risk factors associated with suicidal behavior will open the possibility to prevent such behavior in patients with a first depressive episode in the context of clinical practice. Secondly, interventions aimed at cognitive impairment (in particular: EF) derived from the study may be incorporated into strategies for the prevention of suicidal behavior. Finally, impaired neurocognitive function (even in early stages) could become an identifiable endophenotype or "marker" in clinical and neurobiological studies about suicidal behavior in depressive patients.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Tentativa de Suicídio / Transtorno Depressivo Maior / Função Executiva / Ideação Suicida Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies / Etiology_studies / Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Qualitative_research / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged Idioma: En Revista: BMC Psychiatry Assunto da revista: PSIQUIATRIA Ano de publicação: 2019 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Espanha

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Tentativa de Suicídio / Transtorno Depressivo Maior / Função Executiva / Ideação Suicida Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies / Etiology_studies / Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Qualitative_research / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged Idioma: En Revista: BMC Psychiatry Assunto da revista: PSIQUIATRIA Ano de publicação: 2019 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Espanha