1. Risk factors for pre-adolescent onset suicidal behavior in a high-risk sample of youth
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Giovanna Porta, Jamie Zelazny, J. John Mann, Maria A. Oquendo, Nadine M. Melhem, Boris Birmaher, David A. Brent, and Barbara Stanley
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Adult ,Adolescent ,Offspring ,Suicide, Attempted ,Article ,Suicidal Ideation ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,medicine ,Humans ,Suicidal ideation ,Multinomial logistic regression ,First episode ,Mood Disorders ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,030227 psychiatry ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Clinical Psychology ,Exact test ,Mood disorders ,Adolescent Behavior ,Suicidal behavior ,Female ,Analysis of variance ,medicine.symptom ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To identify risk factors for preadolescent onset suicidal behavior compared with adolescent/young adult onset suicidal behavior in a longitudinal sample of youth with parental history of mood disorders. METHODS: The sample includes 545 youth who were age 21 years or less at the time of their baseline assessment. Participants underwent baseline and yearly study assessments. Observations were censored at the time point closest to the first episode of suicidal behavior for youth with suicidal behavior and at the time of last observation for youth without suicidal behavior. Youth were categorized into 3 groups: first onset of suicidal behavior before the age of 13 (n=32), first onset of suicidal behavior between the ages of 13–21 (n=51) and those without suicide related behaviors (n=462). ANOVA, Chi-square, Fisher’s exact test and multinomial regression were used to test the hypotheses. RESULTS: Significant predictors of preadolescent onset suicidal behavior were diagnosis of depressive disorder (RRR=11.41, p
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- 2021