TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Executive functions and impulsivity in suicide attempter adolescents with major depressive disorder
JO  - Psychiatry and clinical psychopharmacology
A1  - Onat, M.
A1  - İnal Emiroğlu, N.
A1  - Baykara, B.
A1  - Özerdem, A.
A1  - Ozyurt, G.
A1  - Öztürk, Y.
A1  - Şahin, Ü.
A1  - Ildız, A.
A1  - Kaptancık Bilgiç, B.
A1  - Hıdıroğlu Ongun, C.
A1  - Pekcanlar Akay, A.
SP  - 332
EP  - 339
VL  - 29
IS  - 3
N2  - OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between executive functions and suicidality in terms of impulsivity and depression severity. <br><br>METHODS: Depressed adolescents who have made a suicide attempt in the last year (n = 32), depressed adolescents without a suicide attempt (n = 30), and healthy controls (n = 30) participated in the study in Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Clinical diagnoses were made according to the DSM-IV by applying Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL). Data were collected by using a sociodemographic data form, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Barratt Impulsiveness Scale, and the Children's Depression Rating Scale - Revised (CDRS-R). To evaluate all participants' intelligence scores, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R) was applied for adolescents aged under 16 years, and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) was applied to adolescents aged 16-18 years. To determine the performance-based executive functions, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and Stroop Test were applied to all participants. <br><br>RESULTS: In this study, the participants who had made a suicide attempt displayed lower performance in the Stroop Test, especially in part 1 and part 4 compared with the controls (p =.04 and p =.011). Depressive patients also exhibited lower performance in the Stroop Test in part 3 compared with the controls (p =.049). Impulsivity was found more severe in depressive patients compared with controls (p <.001). There were no statistically significant differences between depressive patients with or without suicide attempt in terms of depression severity. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Executive dysfunction appears to be associated with suicidal behaviour in adolescents with the major depressive disorder. This findings need to be replicated with a larger sample size in the future. © 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2475-0581
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24750573.2018.1541647
ID  - ref1
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