Suicidal behaviors and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a cross-sectional study among Chinese medical college students

BACKGROUNDS: Associations between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) subtypes and suicidal behaviors remains unclear. The current study explored the prevalence of suicidal behaviors, and its association with ADHD among Chinese medical students. METHODS: Five thousand six hundred ninety-...

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Autores principales: Shen, Yanmei, Chan, Bella Siu Man, Huang, Chunxiang, Cui, Xilong, Liu, Jianbo, Lu, Jianping, Patel, Marguerite, Verrico, Christopher D., Luo, Xuerong, Zhang, Xiang Yang
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8130371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34006240
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03247-6
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author Shen, Yanmei
Chan, Bella Siu Man
Huang, Chunxiang
Cui, Xilong
Liu, Jianbo
Lu, Jianping
Patel, Marguerite
Verrico, Christopher D.
Luo, Xuerong
Zhang, Xiang Yang
author_facet Shen, Yanmei
Chan, Bella Siu Man
Huang, Chunxiang
Cui, Xilong
Liu, Jianbo
Lu, Jianping
Patel, Marguerite
Verrico, Christopher D.
Luo, Xuerong
Zhang, Xiang Yang
author_sort Shen, Yanmei
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description BACKGROUNDS: Associations between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) subtypes and suicidal behaviors remains unclear. The current study explored the prevalence of suicidal behaviors, and its association with ADHD among Chinese medical students. METHODS: Five thousand six hundred ninety-three medical college students participated. Symptoms of suicidal behaviors, ADHD, anxiety, depression, tobacco and alcohol use were assessed using online questionnaires. RESULTS: The prevalence of lifetime suicidal ideation, suicide plans, and suicide attempts among medical college students were 27.5, 7.9 and 14.8% respectively. Participants with ADHD predominantly inattentive type (ADHD-I) had more than fivefold increased odds of suicidal behaviors, the adjusted odds ratios (ORs) of ADHD-I and ADHD combined type (ADHD-C) remained significant after controlling for confounding factors. CONCLUSIONS: ADHD is associated with high risk of suicidal behaviors. ADHD-I and ADHD-C were strongly associated with suicidal behaviors independent of comorbidities. The finding suggests the importance of addressing ADHD symptoms in suicide prevention.
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spelling pubmed-81303712021-05-18 Suicidal behaviors and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a cross-sectional study among Chinese medical college students Shen, Yanmei Chan, Bella Siu Man Huang, Chunxiang Cui, Xilong Liu, Jianbo Lu, Jianping Patel, Marguerite Verrico, Christopher D. Luo, Xuerong Zhang, Xiang Yang BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUNDS: Associations between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) subtypes and suicidal behaviors remains unclear. The current study explored the prevalence of suicidal behaviors, and its association with ADHD among Chinese medical students. METHODS: Five thousand six hundred ninety-three medical college students participated. Symptoms of suicidal behaviors, ADHD, anxiety, depression, tobacco and alcohol use were assessed using online questionnaires. RESULTS: The prevalence of lifetime suicidal ideation, suicide plans, and suicide attempts among medical college students were 27.5, 7.9 and 14.8% respectively. Participants with ADHD predominantly inattentive type (ADHD-I) had more than fivefold increased odds of suicidal behaviors, the adjusted odds ratios (ORs) of ADHD-I and ADHD combined type (ADHD-C) remained significant after controlling for confounding factors. CONCLUSIONS: ADHD is associated with high risk of suicidal behaviors. ADHD-I and ADHD-C were strongly associated with suicidal behaviors independent of comorbidities. The finding suggests the importance of addressing ADHD symptoms in suicide prevention. BioMed Central 2021-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8130371/ /pubmed/34006240 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03247-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Shen, Yanmei
Chan, Bella Siu Man
Huang, Chunxiang
Cui, Xilong
Liu, Jianbo
Lu, Jianping
Patel, Marguerite
Verrico, Christopher D.
Luo, Xuerong
Zhang, Xiang Yang
Suicidal behaviors and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a cross-sectional study among Chinese medical college students
title Suicidal behaviors and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a cross-sectional study among Chinese medical college students
title_full Suicidal behaviors and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a cross-sectional study among Chinese medical college students
title_fullStr Suicidal behaviors and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a cross-sectional study among Chinese medical college students
title_full_unstemmed Suicidal behaviors and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a cross-sectional study among Chinese medical college students
title_short Suicidal behaviors and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a cross-sectional study among Chinese medical college students
title_sort suicidal behaviors and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd): a cross-sectional study among chinese medical college students
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8130371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34006240
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03247-6
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