TY - JOUR PY - 2023// TI - A risk calculator to predict suicide attempts among individuals with early-onset bipolar disorder JO - Focus : journal of life long learning in psychiatry A1 - Goldstein, Tina R. A1 - Merranko, John A1 - Hafeman, Danella A1 - Gill, Mary Kay A1 - Liao, Fangzi A1 - Sewall, Craig A1 - Hower, Heather A1 - Weinstock, Lauren A1 - Yen, Shirley A1 - Goldstein, Benjamin A1 - Keller, Martin A1 - Strober, Michael A1 - Ryan, Neal A1 - Birmaher, Boris SP - 412 EP - 419 VL - 21 IS - 4 N2 - OBJECTIVES: To build a one-year risk calculator (RC) to predict individualized risk for suicide attempt in early-onset bipolar disorder.

METHODS: Youth numbering 394 with bipolar disorder who completed ≥2 follow-up assessments (median follow-up length = 13.1 years) in the longitudinal Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth (COBY) study were included. Suicide attempt over follow-up was assessed via the A-LIFE Self-Injurious/Suicidal Behavior scale. Predictors from the literature on suicidal behavior in bipolar disorder that are readily assessed in clinical practice were selected and trichotomized as appropriate (presence past 6 months/lifetime history only/no lifetime history). The RC was trained via boosted multinomial classification trees; predictions were calibrated via Platt scaling. Half of the sample was used to train, and the other half to independently test the RC.

RESULTS: There were 249 suicide attempts among 106 individuals. Ten predictors accounted for >90% of the cross-validated relative influence in the model (AUC = 0.82; in order of relative influence): (1) age of mood disorder onset; (2) non-suicidal self-injurious behavior (trichotomized); (3) current age; (4) psychosis (trichotomized); (5) socioeconomic status; (6) most severe depressive symptoms in past 6 months (trichotomized none/subthreshold/threshold); (7) history of suicide attempt (trichotomized); (8) family history of suicidal behavior; (9) substance use disorder (trichotomized); (10) lifetime history of physical/sexual abuse. For all trichotomized variables, presence in the past 6 months reliably predicted higher risk than lifetime history.

CONCLUSIONS: This RC holds promise as a clinical and research tool for prospective identification of individualized high-risk periods for suicide attempt in early-onset bipolar disorder.Reprinted from Bipolar Disord 2022; 24:749-757, with permission from John Wiley and Sons. Copyright © 2022.

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LA - en SN - 1541-4094 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.23021023 ID - ref1 ER -