Citation

Öztürk AB, Özenli Y, Yoldaşcan E, Özdener N. Turk. Klin. J. Med. Sci. 2014; 34(1): 97-103.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Hekimler Birliği Vakfı)

DOI

10.5336/medsci.2013-37410

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Clinical interview is the most important step in determining the suicide intent. Besides, psychometric tests are also important. However, the standard measurement or psychometric tests are still unsatisfactory on this subject. This is why investigations on biological parameters have been increased for determining the risk of suicide in recent years. In this study, the aim was to investigate the blood lipid levels in depending on life event and not life event suicide attempted two groups and to compare them with controls. Material and Methods: Our groups consisted of 56 patients who experienced a pre-suicidal life event, 31 patients who did not experience a pre-suicidal life event and 32 healthy volunteers as the control group. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) for measuring problem solving skills were used in this study.

RESULTS: Blood cholesterol levels were 153.23±9.31 mg/dL in suicidal group that experienced a life event, 131.90±6.85 in the group that did not experience a life event, and 184.40±17.18 in the control group. There was a significant difference among the groups in variance analysis (p<0.001). Triglyceride levels of the groups were 67.25±16.17, 72.80±14.76 and 111.68±12.60 mg/dL, respectively. There were significant differences among three groups for triglyceride levels (p<0.001). In addition, there was no statistically significant difference between suicidal groups and the control group for BDI or PSI tests.

CONCLUSION: One must be more careful for diagnosis and treatment of patients with a high suicidal risk, and this especially applies for primary care physicians. It is clear that monitoring these risky cases with surveys and routine tests such as blood lipids is useful. © 2014 by Türkiye Klinikleri.

Language: en

Keywords

human; suicide; Suicide; Attempted; article; major clinical study; controlled study; triacylglycerol; Cholesterol; cholesterol; lipid blood level; Beck Depression Inventory; named inventories, questionnaires and rating scales; Problem Solving Inventory