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Citation |
Henriques G, Wenzel A, Brown GK, Beck AT. Am. J. Psychiatry 2005; 162(11): 2180-2182. |
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Affiliation |
Psychopathology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market St., Rm. 2032, Philadelphia, PA 19104. abeck@mail.med.upenn.edu. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2005, American Psychiatric Association) |
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16263863 |
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Abstract |
OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to evaluate whether suicide attempters' reaction to surviving their attempt predicted eventual suicide. METHOD: Three hundred ninety-three suicide attempters were categorized on the basis of their reaction to having survived their attempt (i.e., glad to be alive, ambivalent, wished they were dead) and were followed for 5 to 10 years to determine whether they completed suicide. RESULTS: A survival analysis found that subjects who said that they wished they had died after a suicide attempt were 2.5 times more likely to commit suicide eventually than those who were glad they survived and those who were ambivalent about the attempt. CONCLUSIONS: Suicide attempters' reaction to surviving is an important clinical variable that is easily assessed in evaluations that occur following a suicide attempt. |