ArticleJournal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology2015
Identifying adolescents at highly elevated risk for suicidal behavior in the emergency department.
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- Universal Suicide Risk Screening for Youths in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Pooled it
- Sleep and suicide: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.Clinical psychology review · 2020Pooled it
- Building toward a text-based intervention for parents of suicidal adolescents seeking emergency department care: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2025Trial
- Psychopathology profiles of acutely suicidal adolescents: Associations with post-discharge suicide attempts and rehospitalization.Journal of affective disorders · 2017Trial
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- Suicide Prevention in Youth.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- Correlates of Suicidal Ideation Among Elementary School-Aged Pediatric Patients.Pediatric emergency care · 2025Article
- Evaluating Machine Learning for Predicting Youth Suicidal Behavior Up to 1 Year After Contact With Mental-Health Specialty Care.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Suicidal behaviors and associated factors among patients attending an emergency department: a facility-based cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Longitudinal associations among dimensional symptoms of depression and anxiety and first onset suicidal ideation in adolescents.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2023Article
- Suicide in African American Adolescents: Understanding Risk by Studying Resilience.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2022Review
- Emergency Department Visits for Suicidal Ideation and Self-Harm in Rural and Urban Youths.The Journal of pediatrics · 2021Article
- Feasibility of an Integrated Treatment Approach for Youth with Depression, Suicide Attempts, and Substance Use Problems.Evidence-based practice in child and adolescent mental health · 2021Article
- Predicting suicidal behavior among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth receiving psychiatric emergency services.Journal of psychiatric research · 2020Article
- Prospective prediction of first lifetime onset of suicidal ideation in a national study of substance users.Journal of psychiatric research · 2018Article
- Aggressive Behaviors and Suicide Ideation in Inpatient Adolescents: The Moderating Roles of Internalizing Symptoms and Stress.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2018Article
- Emerging trends in adolescent suicide prevention research.Current opinion in psychology · 2018Review
- Suicide Risk Screening in Healthcare Settings: Identifying Males and Females at Risk.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2017Review
- Identification of At-Risk Youth by Suicide Screening in a Pediatric Emergency Department.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2017Article
- Transitions in Suicide Risk from Early Adolescence to Early Adulthood.Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide ResearchArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThe feasibility and concurrent validity of adolescent suicide risk screening in medical emergency departments (EDs) has been documented. The objectives of this short-term prospective study of adolescents who screened positive for suicide risk in the ED were: 1) to examine adolescents' rate of suicidal behavior during the 2 months following their ED visits and compare it with reported rates for psychiatric samples; and 2) to identify possible predictors of acute risk for suicidal behavior in this at-risk sample.
methodParticipants were 81 adolescents, ages 14-19 years, seeking services for psychiatric and nonpsychiatric chief complaints, who screened positive for suicide risk because of recent suicidal ideation, a suicide attempt, and/or depression plus alcohol or substance misuse. A comprehensive assessment of suicidal behavior, using the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale, was conducted at baseline and 2 month follow-up.
resultsSix adolescents (7.4%) reported a suicide attempt and 15 (18.5%) engaged in some type of suicidal behavior (actual, aborted, or interrupted suicide attempt; preparatory behavior) during the 2 months following their ED visit. These rates suggest that this screen identified a high-risk sample. Furthermore, adolescents who screened positive for suicidal ideation and/or attempt plus depression and alcohol/substance misuse were most likely to engage in future suicidal behavior (38.9%).
conclusionsIn this study, use of a higher screen threshold (multiple suicide risk factors) showed promise for identifying highly elevated acute risk for suicidal behavior.
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