ArticleWorld psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)2013
Early childhood sexual abuse increases suicidal intent.
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- Resting State EEG Correlates of Suicide Ideation and Suicide Attempt.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Review
- Risk profiles of suicide attempts among girls with histories of commercial sexual exploitation: A latent class analysis.Child abuse & neglect · 2023Article
- Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Prenatal Mental Health and Substance Use Among Urban, Low-Income Women.Community mental health journal · 2022Article
- The effect of sexual abuse and dissociation on suicide attempt.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Child Sexual Abuse Victimization: Focus on Self-Compassion.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- The Influence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Pain Management: Mechanisms, Processes, and Trauma-Informed Care.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Investigating the relationship between childhood sexual abuse, self-harm repetition and suicidal intent: mixed-methods study.BJPsych open · 2021Article
- Adversity Over the Life Course: A Comparison Between Women and Men Who Died by Suicide.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Identification of Suicidal Ideation in theFrontiers in artificial intelligence · 2021Article
- The Role of Adolescence in Development Paths Toward Suicide: Specificities and Shaping of Adversity Trajectories.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Childhood maltreatment, neuropsychological function and suicidal behavior.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2019Article
- Childhood maltreatment and risk for suicide attempts in major depression: a sex-specific approach.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2019Article
- Characteristics of child physical and sexual abuse as predictors of psychopathology.Child abuse & neglect · 2018Article
- Childhood maltreatment and impulsivity as predictors of interpersonal violence, self-injury and suicide attempts: A national study.Psychiatry research · 2018Article
- Neuropathology of suicide: recent findings and future directions.Molecular psychiatry · 2017Review
- Child abuse and the prevalence of suicide attempts among those reporting suicide ideation.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2016Article
- Clinical Correlates of Planned and Unplanned Suicide Attempts.The Journal of nervous and mental disease · 2016Article
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Abstract
Childhood sexual abuse has been consistently associated with suicidal behavior. We studied suicide attempt features in depressed individuals sexually abused as children. On average, sexual abuse started before age 9. It frequently coexisted with physical abuse. Suicide attempters more often had personality disorders and had endured abuse for longer, but did not differ in terms of other clinical characteristics from non-attempters. Earlier onset of sexual abuse and its duration were associated with more suicide attempts. However, when personality disorders were included in the regression model, only these disorders predicted number of attempts. The severity of sexual abuse and the coexistence of physical abuse were correlated with age at first suicide attempt. However, only severity of sexual abuse was marginally associated with age at first suicide attempt in the regression model. Finally, the earlier the age of onset of sexual abuse, the higher the intent, even after controlling for age, sex and personality disorders. This suggests that the characteristics of childhood sexual abuse, especially age of onset, should be considered when studying the risk for suicidal behavior in abused populations.
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