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Citation

Glenn CR, Kleiman EM, Cha CB, Deming CA, Franklin JC, Nock MK. Depress. Anxiety 2018; 35(1): 65-88.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/da.22686

PMID

29064611

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The field is in need of novel and transdiagnostic risk factors for suicide. The National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) provides a framework that may help advance research on suicidal behavior.

METHOD: We conducted a meta-analytic review of existing prospective risk and protective factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors (ideation, attempts, and deaths) that fall within one of the five RDoC domains or relate to a prominent suicide theory. Predictors were selected from a database of 4,082 prospective risk and protective factors for suicide outcomes.

RESULTS: A total of 460 predictors met inclusion criteria for this meta-analytic review and most examined risk (vs. protective) factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The overall effect of risk factors was statistically significant, but relatively small, in predicting suicide ideation (weighted mean odds ratio: wOR = 1.72; 95% CI: 1.59-1.87), suicide attempt (wOR = 1.66 [1.57-1.76), and suicide death (wOR = 1.41 [1.24-1.60]). Across all suicide outcomes, most risk factors related to the Negative Valence Systems domain, although effect sizes were of similar magnitude across RDoC domains.

CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated that the RDoC framework provides a novel and promising approach to suicide research; however, relatively few studies of suicidal behavior fit within this framework. Future studies must go beyond the "usual suspects" of suicide risk factors (e.g., mental disorders, sociodemographics) to understand the processes that combine to lead to this deadly outcome.

© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


Language: en

Keywords

Research Domain Criteria; meta-analysis; risk factor; suicide; suicide attempts

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