Citation

Scoliers G, Portzky G, Audenaert K, van Heeringen CK. Psychiatr. Danub. 2006; 18(Suppl 1): 148.

Affiliation

Unit for Suicide Research, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. (Gerrit.Scoliers@UGent.be)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Facultas Universitatis Studiorum Zagrabiensis - Danube Symposion of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16964152

Abstract

This study aims at estimating sociodemographic and psychopathological risk factors for admission of a subsequent suicide attempt during a 5-year follow-up period. 1017 suicide attempters were referred to the Accident and Emergency department of the University Hospital Ghent between 1990 and 1993. These patients were contacted 5 years later and asked to participate; 359 (35.3%) agreed and were interviewed at their homes. The risk of a subsequent suicide attempt during the 5-year period following a non-fatal suicide attempt is estimated at 29.2%. Persons of female gender, of age between 20-29 and 30-39, and having only a primary school degree were more likely to initiate a subsequent attempt. Subsequent attempts were associated with admitting suicidal thoughts at follow-up, and having a high score on the Buglass and Horton Risk of Repetition Scale, the Covi Anxiety Scale, the Raskin Depression Scale and the Symptom Checklist. The most important sociodemographic and psychopathological risk factors for repetition of attempted suicide within a time-period of 5-years are: female gender, middle age (20 - 49 years old), lower educational achievement, having suicidal thoughts at follow-up, a medium or high risk of repetition, a high anxiety score, a high depression score, and more psychiatric symptoms.

Language: en