Citation

Skopp NA, Smolenski DJ, Sheppard SC, Bush NE, Luxton DD. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2016; 46(4): 413-426.

Affiliation

National Center for Telehealth & Technology (T2), Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury, Joint Base Lewis McChord, Tacoma, WA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/sltb.12227

PMID

26749381

Abstract

A clearer understanding of risk factors for suicidal behavior among soldiers is of principal importance to military suicide prevention. It is unclear whether soldiers who attempt suicide and those who die by suicide have different patterns of risk factors. As such, preventive efforts aimed toward reducing suicide attempts and suicides, respectively, may require different strategies. We conducted a latent class analysis (LCA) to examine classes of risk factors among suicide attempters (n = 1,433) and decedents (n = 424). Both groups were represented by three classes: (1) External/Antisocial Risk Factors, (2) Mental Health Risk Factors, and (3) No Pattern. These findings support the conceptualization that military suicide attempters and decedents represent a single population.

Language: en