Affect regulation and suicide attempts in adolescent inpatients.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry
; 36(6): 793-8, 1997 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-9183134
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To examine the relationship between affect dysregulation and self-destructive behaviors in adolescent suicide attempters.METHOD:
Measures of affect dysregulation, number of risk-taking behaviors in past year, presence of self-mutilative behaviors in past year, and number of different types of self-mutilative behaviors in past year were individually administered to adolescents admitted to an inpatient unit who were either suicide ideators (n = 25) or suicide attempters (n = 35).RESULTS:
Suicide attempters reported significantly higher levels of affect dysregulation and a greater number of different types of self-mutilative behaviors in the past year than suicide ideators. In addition, the number of different types of self-mutilative behaviors in the past year had the strongest relationship to suicide attempts.CONCLUSION:
Suicidal behavior among adolescent psychiatric patients is related to poor affect regulation. A risk factor for suicidal behavior in adolescents is a broad range of self-mutilative acts in the year preceding the suicide attempt.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Intento de Suicidio
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Trastornos del Humor
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Adolescent
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry
Asunto de la revista:
PEDIATRIA
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PSIQUIATRIA
Año:
1997
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos