Proximally-Occurring Life Events and the First Transition from Suicidal Ideation to Suicide Attempt in Adolescents

Suicide is currently the third leading cause of death in U.S. adolescents (Centers  for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2017). Risk for death by suicide is often conceptualized as occurring on a continuum of severity from passive death wishes to suicidal ideation, planning, and attempt, with a prior suicide attempt being the most robust risk factor for suicide death (Ribeiro et al., 2016). Because only approximately one-third of adolescents who have thought about suicide will progress to a suicide attempt, increasing attention has been paid to identifying factors which discriminate these two groups of adolescents (Glenn and Nock, 2014; Nock et al., 2013).

Source: Journal of Affective Disorders - August 14, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Elise Paul Tags: Research paper Source Type: research