Citation

Bronisch T, Hofler M, Wittchen HU, Lieb R. Psychiatr. Danub. 2006; 18(Suppl 1): 46.

Affiliation

Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstr. 10, 80804 Munich, Germany. bronisch@mpipsykl.mpg.de.

Copyright

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

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16963917

Abstract

We examined prospectively whether mania and hypomania are associated with an elevated risk for suicidality in a community sample of adolescents and young adults. Baseline and four-year -follow-up data were used from the Early-Developmental-Stages-of-Psychopathology (EDSP)-Study, a prospective longitudinal study of adolescents and young adults in Munich. Suicidal tendencies (ideation/attempts), mania and hypomania were assessed using the standardized Munich-Composite-International-Diagnostic-Interview. At baseline, mania/ hypomania was associated to a different degree with suicidality (Odds ratios [OR] range from 1.9 to13.7). In the prospective analyses the risk for subsequent incident suicidal ideation was increased in the presence of prior mania (38.0% vs.14.1%; OR = 4.4; 95% CI = 1.4-13.5). No associations could be found between prior mania/hypo-mania and incident suicide attempts. The prospective analyses revealed a remarkable relationship between pre-existing mania and increased risk for subsequent suicidal ideation.

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