Citation

Campos RC, Holden RR. Eur. J. Psychiatry 2014; 28(4): 230-241.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Departmento de Psiquiatria de la Facultad de Medicina de Zaragoza)

DOI

10.4321/S0213-61632014000400004

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Background and Objectives: This exploratory study simultaneously tests the contribution of socio-demographic, clinical, distress, and personality variables for identifying suicide risk in a non-clinical sample.

METHODS: A convenience sample of 810 adults ranging in age from 19 to 67 years (M = 36.34, SD = 12.46) and living in various Portuguese regions participated. Their education varied from 6 to 21 years of schooling (M = 11.74, SD = 5.14). Participants responded to sociodemographic questions, the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire, the Center for the Epidemiological Studies of Depression Scale, and the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised.

RESULTS: In the present sample, 4.3% of participants indicated past suicide attempts, 27.9% reported some lifetime suicide ideation, and 6.4% indicated a past suicide plan. Depressive symptoms, having seen a psychologist or psychiatrist, self-criticism, and education discriminated between participants who had attempted suicide (n = 35) and those who had not attempted to die by suicide (n = 775). Depressive symptoms, having seen a psychologist or psychiatrist, self-criticism, psychiatric disease and age discriminated between participants who scored below (n = 650) and who scored equal to or above (n = 160) the cut-off score for the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised.

CONCLUSIONS: Results have implications for the assessment of suicide risk. © 2014, University of Zaragoza. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

adult; human; suicide; female; male; aged; suicidal ideation; depression; Depressive symptoms; Suicide risk; education; suicide attempt; suicidal behavior; unemployment; major clinical study; mental disease; controlled study; questionnaire; symptomatology; area under the curve; discriminant analysis; chronic disease; demography; Article; employment status; receiver operating characteristic; exploratory research; Clinical variables; married person; Center for the Epidemiological Studies of Depression Scale; Depressive Experiences Questionnaire; Non-clinical sample; Portuguese (citizen); Selfcriticism; Sociodemographic variables; Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire Revised