Citation

Blasco-Fontecilla H, Alegria AA, Delgado-Gomez D, Legido-Gil T, Saiz-Ruiz J, Oquendo MA, Baca-Garcia E. ScientificWorldJournal 2012; 2012(online): 825189.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, IIS, CIBERSAM, Autonoma University, 28040 Madrid, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, ScientificWorld, Ltd.)

DOI

10.1100/2012/825189

PMID

22654633

Abstract

Objectives. To define different subgroups of suicide attempters according to age at onset of suicide attempts. Methods. Participants were 229 suicide attempters (147 females; 82 males) admitted to a general hospital in Madrid, Spain. We used admixture analysis to determine the best-fitting model for the age at onset of suicide attempts separated by sex. Results. The best fitted model for the age at onset of suicide attempts was a mixture of two gaussian distributions. Females showed an earlier age at onset of suicide attempts in both Gaussian distributions (mean ± S.D.) (26.98 ± 5.69 and 47.98 ± 14.13) than males (32.77 ± 8.11 and 61.31 ± 14.61). Early-onset female attempters were more likely to show borderline personality disorder than late-onset female attempters (OR = 11.11; 95% CI = 2.43-50.0). Conclusions. Age at onset of suicide attempts characterizes different subpopulations of suicide attempters.

Language: en