@article{ref1,
title="What differentiates prisoners who attempt suicide from those who experience suicidal ideation? A nationally representative study",
journal="Suicide and life-threatening behavior",
year="2020",
author="Favril, Louis and Stoliker, Bryce and Vander Laenen, Freya",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Many people who think about suicide do not engage in suicidal behavior. Identifying risk factors implicated in the process of behavioral enaction is crucial for suicide prevention, particularly in high-risk groups such as prisoners. <br><br>METHOD: Cross-sectional data were drawn from a nationally representative sample of 17,891 prisoners (79% men) in the United States. We compared prisoners who attempted suicide (attempters; n = 2,496) with those who thought about suicide but never made an attempt (ideators; n = 1,716) on a range of established risk factors. <br><br>RESULTS: More than half (59%) of participants who experienced suicidal ideation had also attempted suicide. Violent offending, trauma, brain injury, alcohol abuse, and certain mental disorders distinguished attempters from ideators. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Our results fit within recent ideation-to-action theories that emphasize the role of a capability for suicide in the transition from thoughts to acts of suicide.<br><br>© 2020 The American Association of Suicidology.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0363-0234",
doi="10.1111/sltb.12638",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12638"
}