Predicting suicide attempts in depressed adolescents: Clarifying the role of disinhibition and childhood sexual abuse

摘要: BACKGROUND: Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents, and depressed youth are six times more likely to make suicide attempts as compared non-depressed adolescents. The present study examined unique interactive effects two well-established correlates suicidality - childhood sexual abuse (CSA) disinhibition in predicting METHOD: Participants were 163 adolescents (125 females) aged 13-18 (M=15.60, SD=1.27) diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (n=95, 58.3%) and/or Dysthymia (n=69, 42.3%) recruited from an acute residential treatment service. completed interviews assessing psychopathology suicidality, self-report measures depressive symptoms CSA, a computerized task. RESULTS: Consistent hypotheses, CSA moderated association between adolescents' report their past year lifetime attempts. Specifically, higher was associated greater likelihood having made attempt history but not those without. same pattern results held analyses frequency. LIMITATIONS: Primary findings based on observational, cross-sectional data, therefore, causal relationships cannot be inferred. gender imbalance sample precluded stratifying our by gender. ascertained self-report; replication objective warranted. CONCLUSIONS: Our indicate that may work together predict elevated risk, these have implications for early identification efforts at high risk suicide. Language: en