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Suicide and Youth: Risk Factors
Suicide occurs more often in older than in younger people, but is still one of the leading causes of death in late childhood and adolescence worldwide. This not only results in a direct loss of many young lives, but also has disruptive psychosocial and adverse socio-economic effects. From the perspe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6218408/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30425663 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00540 |
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description | Suicide occurs more often in older than in younger people, but is still one of the leading causes of death in late childhood and adolescence worldwide. This not only results in a direct loss of many young lives, but also has disruptive psychosocial and adverse socio-economic effects. From the perspective of public mental health, suicide among young people is a main issue to address. Therefore we need good insight in the risk factors contributing to suicidal behavior in youth. This mini review gives a short overview of the most important risk factors for late school-age children and adolescents, as established by scientific research in this domain. Key risk factors found were: mental disorders, previous suicide attempts, specific personality characteristics, genetic loading and family processes in combination with triggering psychosocial stressors, exposure to inspiring models and availability of means of committing suicide. Further unraveling and knowledge of the complex interplay of these factors is highly relevant with regard to the development of effective prevention strategy plans for youth suicide. |
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spelling | pubmed-62184082018-11-13 Suicide and Youth: Risk Factors Bilsen, Johan Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Suicide occurs more often in older than in younger people, but is still one of the leading causes of death in late childhood and adolescence worldwide. This not only results in a direct loss of many young lives, but also has disruptive psychosocial and adverse socio-economic effects. From the perspective of public mental health, suicide among young people is a main issue to address. Therefore we need good insight in the risk factors contributing to suicidal behavior in youth. This mini review gives a short overview of the most important risk factors for late school-age children and adolescents, as established by scientific research in this domain. Key risk factors found were: mental disorders, previous suicide attempts, specific personality characteristics, genetic loading and family processes in combination with triggering psychosocial stressors, exposure to inspiring models and availability of means of committing suicide. Further unraveling and knowledge of the complex interplay of these factors is highly relevant with regard to the development of effective prevention strategy plans for youth suicide. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6218408/ /pubmed/30425663 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00540 Text en Copyright © 2018 Bilsen. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Bilsen, Johan Suicide and Youth: Risk Factors |
title | Suicide and Youth: Risk Factors |
title_full | Suicide and Youth: Risk Factors |
title_fullStr | Suicide and Youth: Risk Factors |
title_full_unstemmed | Suicide and Youth: Risk Factors |
title_short | Suicide and Youth: Risk Factors |
title_sort | suicide and youth: risk factors |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6218408/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30425663 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00540 |
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