Suicidal children grow up: demographic and clinical risk factors for adolescent suicide attempts. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • This longitudinal study reports rates and demographic and clinical risk factors for adolescent suicide attempts during a 6- to 8-year follow-up period of an initial sample of 106 preadolescent and young adolescent psychiatric inpatients and 101 preadolescent and young adolescent nonpatients. Survival analysis was used to evaluate risk for a first suicide attempt in the follow-up period for 133 subjects who were interviewed. No deaths occurred. Suicidal inpatients, compared with nonpatients, had earlier first suicide attempts in the follow-up period. Adolescents who attempted suicide in the follow-up period were seven times more likely to have a mood disorder during the follow-up period than those who did not attempt suicide. Implications for clinical practice and research are discussed.

publication date

  • July 1, 1991

Research

keywords

  • Personality Development
  • Suicide, Attempted

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0025787264

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1097/00004583-199107000-00013

PubMed ID

  • 1890095

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 30

issue

  • 4