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Title: | Suicide risk in a Portuguese non-clinical sample of adults |
Authors: | Campos, Rui C. Holden, Ronald R. |
Keywords: | Suicide risk; Non-clinical sample; |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Abstract: | Background and Objectives: This exploratory study simultaneously tests
the contribution of socio-demographic, clinical, distress, and personality variables for identifying suicide risk in a non-clinical sample. Methods: A convenience sample of 810 adults ranging in age from 19 to 67 years (M = 36.34, SD = 12.46) and living in various Portuguese regions participated. Their education varied from 6 to 21 years of schooling (M = 11.74, SD = 5.14). Participants responded to sociodemographic
questions, the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire, the Center for the Epidemiological
Studies of Depression Scale, and the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised.
Results: In the present sample, 4.3% of participants indicated past suicide attempts,
27.9% reported some lifetime suicide ideation, and 6.4% indicated a past suicide plan. Depressive
symptoms, having seen a psychologist or psychiatrist, self-criticism, and education
discriminated between participants who had attempted suicide (n = 35) and those who
had not attempted to die by suicide (n = 775). Depressive symptoms, having seen a psychologist or psychiatrist, self-criticism, psychiatric disease and age discriminated between
participants who scored below (n = 650) and who scored equal to or above (n = 160) the cut-off score for the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised.
Conclusions: Results have implications for the assessment of suicide risk. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/12838 |
Type: | article |
Appears in Collections: | CIEP - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica PSI - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica
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