Trial reportJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2019
Changing Conceptions of Death as a Function of Depression Status, Suicidal Ideation, and Media Exposure in Early Childhood.
Trial report in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00595283 (Early Intervention in Depression), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Early Intervention in Depression: Dyadic Emotion Development Therapy for Preschool Children
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and school closures on self-harming and suicidal behaviors in adolescents: A comprehensive meta-analysis.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Measurement of screen time among young children aged 0-6 years: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- The Predictive Value of Preadolescent Suicidal Ideation Reporter Discrepancies in the ABCD Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Death Conceptualizations: How do Youth Presenting to a Pediatric Psychiatric Emergency Department View the End of their Lives?Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Inconsistent reporting of past self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in children: A longitudinal analysis of data from the adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Dampened positive emotion and a PTSD diagnosis are related to suicidal thoughts and behavior in young children receiving intensive psychiatric care.Psychiatry research · 2025Article
- Preschool Mood Disorders: A Review of the Literature from 2017 to 2024.Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America · 2025Review
- Understanding of death and related constructs in children with suicidal thoughts and behaviors: A review and future directions.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2025Review
- Expectation violation reduces the accessibility of implicit suicidal concepts and explicit life concepts.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Considering Developmental Phenotypes of Suicidality for Young Black Children.Mental health science · 2024Article
- Preschool-Onset Major Depressive Disorder as a Strong Predictor of Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors Into Preadolescence.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Informant Discrepancies in Suicidality Screening Tools Among School Age Youth.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- What Makes a Useful "Predictor" of Risk for Suicide Attempt?JAMA psychiatry · 2022Article
- Longitudinal associations among academic achievement and depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in elementary schoolchildren: disentangling between- and within-person associations.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2022Article
- Indicators of suicidal outcomes among 6- to 12-year-old treatment seeking youth.Child psychiatry and human development · 2022Article
- Trajectories of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors From Preschool Through Late Adolescence.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2022Article
- Young children with suicidal thoughts and behaviors more likely to resolve conflicts with violence, homicide, or suicide: A study of internal working models using narratives.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2022Article
- Preschool Depression: a Diagnostic Reality.Current psychiatry reports · 2019Review
- Preteen Suicide Risk Screening in the Pediatric Outpatient Setting: A Clinical Pathway.Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison PsychiatryReview
- Future Directions in Suicide and Self-Injury Revisited: Integrating a Developmental Psychopathology Perspective.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study characterized 3- to 6-year-old children's understanding of death as a function of depression status, suicidal ideation (SI), and media consumption.
methodParticipants were 79 children with depression (3.0-6.11 years old) who completed a comprehensive psychiatric assessment and experimenter-led death interview and a comparison group of 60 healthy children (4.0-7.12 years old). The interview assessed children's understanding of 5 concepts of death: universality, applicability, irreversibility, cessation, and causality. Children's mastery of each concept and overall understanding of death was examined as a function of depression and SI status: depressed with SI (n = 22), depressed without SI (n = 57), and healthy (n = 60). Children's observed emotional reactions to hearing about natural death, accidental death, and suicide were assessed by death-themed stories. Parent reports of children's television and videogames/internet consumption assessed links between media exposure and understanding of death.
resultsChildren with depression and SI scored higher on overall understanding of death than those with depression without SI and healthy children. They also exhibited more sad and anxious affect listening to death-themed stories and were more likely to describe death as caused by violence. Across this sample, older children also were more likely to depict death as violent. More television use was associated with less understanding of death, including the concept of irreversibility.
conclusionChildren with depression and SI have a more advanced understanding of death than their peers, dispelling the myth that these ideations arise in the context of a poor understanding of death. The increase in violence attributions across early childhood could indicate increasing normalization of violence in children's perceptions of death. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION: A Randomized Controlled Trial of PCIT-ED for Preschool Depression; http://clinicaltrials.gov; NCT00595283.
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