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Suicide Precipitants Differ Across the Lifespan but Are Not Significant in Predicting Medically Severe Attempts

An important risk factor for suicide assessment is the suicide precipitant. This study explores suicide attempt precipitants across the lifespan. Three years of medical records related to suicide attempters who were admitted to the emergency department of a large teaching hospital in Singapore were...

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Autores principales: Choo, Carol C., Chew, Peter K. H., Ho, Roger C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5923733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29621197
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15040691
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description An important risk factor for suicide assessment is the suicide precipitant. This study explores suicide attempt precipitants across the lifespan. Three years of medical records related to suicide attempters who were admitted to the emergency department of a large teaching hospital in Singapore were subjected to analysis. These cases were divided into three age groups: Adolescence, Early Adulthood, and Middle Adulthood. A total of 540 cases were examined (70.9% females; 63.7% Chinese, 13.7% Malays, 15.9% Indians), whose ages ranged from 12 to 62. There were eight cases above the age of 65 years which were excluded from the analysis. Significant differences were found in precipitants for suicide attempts across the lifespan. Middle adults had relatively fewer relationship problems, and adolescents had comparatively fewer financial and medical problems. The models to predict medically severe attempts across the age groups using suicide precipitants were not significant. The findings were discussed in regards to implications in suicide assessment and primary prevention in Singapore, as well as limitations and recommendations for future research.
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spelling pubmed-59237332018-05-03 Suicide Precipitants Differ Across the Lifespan but Are Not Significant in Predicting Medically Severe Attempts Choo, Carol C. Chew, Peter K. H. Ho, Roger C. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article An important risk factor for suicide assessment is the suicide precipitant. This study explores suicide attempt precipitants across the lifespan. Three years of medical records related to suicide attempters who were admitted to the emergency department of a large teaching hospital in Singapore were subjected to analysis. These cases were divided into three age groups: Adolescence, Early Adulthood, and Middle Adulthood. A total of 540 cases were examined (70.9% females; 63.7% Chinese, 13.7% Malays, 15.9% Indians), whose ages ranged from 12 to 62. There were eight cases above the age of 65 years which were excluded from the analysis. Significant differences were found in precipitants for suicide attempts across the lifespan. Middle adults had relatively fewer relationship problems, and adolescents had comparatively fewer financial and medical problems. The models to predict medically severe attempts across the age groups using suicide precipitants were not significant. The findings were discussed in regards to implications in suicide assessment and primary prevention in Singapore, as well as limitations and recommendations for future research. MDPI 2018-04-05 2018-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5923733/ /pubmed/29621197 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15040691 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title Suicide Precipitants Differ Across the Lifespan but Are Not Significant in Predicting Medically Severe Attempts
title_full Suicide Precipitants Differ Across the Lifespan but Are Not Significant in Predicting Medically Severe Attempts
title_fullStr Suicide Precipitants Differ Across the Lifespan but Are Not Significant in Predicting Medically Severe Attempts
title_full_unstemmed Suicide Precipitants Differ Across the Lifespan but Are Not Significant in Predicting Medically Severe Attempts
title_short Suicide Precipitants Differ Across the Lifespan but Are Not Significant in Predicting Medically Severe Attempts
title_sort suicide precipitants differ across the lifespan but are not significant in predicting medically severe attempts
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5923733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29621197
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15040691
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