@article{ref1,
title="Suicide ideation and attempts in children with psychiatric disorders and typical development",
journal="Crisis",
year="2014",
author="Dickerson Mayes, Susan and Calhoun, Susan L. and Baweja, Raman and Mahr, Fauzia",
volume="36",
number="1",
pages="55-60",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders are at increased risk for suicide behavior. Aims: This is the first study to compare frequencies of suicide ideation and attempts in children and adolescents with specific psychiatric disorders and typical children while controlling for comorbidity and demographics. <br><br>METHOD: Mothers rated the frequency of suicide ideation and attempts in 1,706 children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders and typical development, 6-18 years of age. <br><br>RESULTS: For the typical group, 0.5% had suicide behavior (ideation or attempts), versus 24% across the psychiatric groups (bulimia 48%, depression or anxiety disorder 34%, oppositional defiant disorder 33%, ADHD-combined type 22%, anorexia 22%, autism 18%, intellectual disability 17%, and ADHD-inattentive type 8%). Most alarming, 29% of adolescents with bulimia often or very often had suicide attempts, compared with 0-4% of patients in the other psychiatric groups. <br><br>CONCLUSION: It is important for professionals to routinely screen all children and adolescents who have psychiatric disorders for suicide ideation and attempts and to treat the underlying psychiatric disorders that increase suicide risk.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0227-5910",
doi="10.1027/0227-5910/a000284",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000284"
}