Citation

Sarchiapone M, Carli V, Cuomo C. Psychiatr. Danub. 2006; 18(Suppl 1): 64-65.

Affiliation

Faculty of Medicine, University of Molise, Via De Sanctis, 86100 Campobasso, Italy. marco.sarchiapone@gmail.com.

Copyright

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

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16963958

Abstract

Aggressive and suicidal behaviours are one of the most common psychiatric emergencies and, as with every psychiatric disorder or human behaviour, have a multifactorial origin in which biological, psychological and social factors act together. These factors may have a protective value or may be risk factors and both concur in determining the individual's vulnerability to suicidal behaviour. With the aim of evaluating the impact of some psychopathological dimensions on suicidal actions, we conducted a study on a sample of psychiatric patients with a history of suicide attempt, comparing it with a sample of psychiatric patients without suicidal tendencies, homogeneous for age, sex and psychiatric diagnosis. 203 adults outpatients consecutively enrolled, were the study subjects (mean age: 39.47+/-13.15; M:F 89/114), whose diagnoses were heterogeneous and formulated according to DSM-IV-TR criteria. 112 patients (54.6%) had a lifetime suicide attempt in their psychiatric history. Among suicide attempters, a significantly higher number of subjects were female sex, not married and unemployed. The results also showed that patients with a suicide attempt had higher Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) total scores and Brown Goodwin Life History of Aggression (BGLHA) scores in comparison to the control group and lower scores on the resilience scale.

Language: en