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Identifying Correlates of Suicide Attempts in Suicidal Ideators: a Population-based Study by JELENA BREZO; JOEL PARIS; RICHARD TREMBLAY; FRANK VITARO; MARTINE HÉBERT; GUSTAVO TURECKI is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## ABSTRACT ## Background Identification of factors that distinguish between ideators who act on their suicidal thoughts from those who do not is an important clinical and research objective. ## Method We examined correlates of suicide attempts in suicidal ideators, members of a French-Canadian, school-based cohort. Suicidal thoughts were evaluated in adolescence and early adulthood in the total sample of suicidal ideators, who were then stratified into subgroups consisting of persistent ideators, male ideators and female ideators. ## Results In addition to persistent suicidal ideas [odds ratios (ORs) 2·1–2·8], Axis I psychopathology, female gender and childhood sexual abuse (CSA) were the most consistent correlates of suicide attempts. Externalizing disorders were significant contributors in persistent ideators [drug misuse: OR 2·8, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1·1–6·9] and in male ideators in particular (disruptive disorders: OR 5·9, 95% CI 2·2–16·0). In women, psychiatric co-morbidity also had a significant effect (OR 1·6, 95% CI 1·1–2·1). CSA was of relevance in both women (OR 1·2, 95% CI 1·1–1·4) and persistent ideators (OR 1·3, 95% CI 1·1–1·5). Personality traits showed gende

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Author

JELENA BREZO; JOEL PARIS; RICHARD TREMBLAY; FRANK VITARO; MARTINE HÉBERT; GUSTAVO TURECKI

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Published

2007

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Social Sciences)