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Characterizing the phenomenology of passive suicidal ideation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of its prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity, correlates, and comparisons with active suicidal ideation.
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- The association between long working hours, shift work, and suicidal ideation: A systematic review and meta-analyses.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2024Pooled it
- Assessment of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adults: A systematic review of measure psychometric properties and implications for clinical and research utility.Clinical psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Brief Interventions for Self-injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Young People: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Pooled it
- Prevalence of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among refugees: a meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- Suicide behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic: A meta-analysis of 54 studies.Psychiatry research · 2021Pooled it
- Use of Ecological Momentary Assessment to Study Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior: a Systematic Review.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Pooled it
- Suicidal ideation trajectories among adults following psychiatric hospitalization.Behaviour research and therapy · 2026Trial
- Applying the reinforcer pathology model to alcohol use and suicide risk: An initial test.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- Who and what retrospective risk assessments miss: Examining retrospective denial of momentary suicidal ideation in adolescents.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- Predicting Next-Day Passive Suicidal Ideation in At-Risk Youth.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2026Article
- An Examination of the Relationship Between Primal World Beliefs and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Three Samples of U.S. Adults.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2026Article
- A real-time examination and comparison of differentiation among suicidal thinking and affect items in an adolescent sample.Psychological assessment · 2026Article
- Suicide attempt history is associated with blunted neural reward responsiveness after accounting for a history of suicidal ideation and preparatory behaviors.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 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
- The role of psychotropic medication, alcohol, illicit drugs, and suicidal intention in fatal motor vehicle accidents involving drivers with psychotic disorders.European journal of public health · 2026Article
- Factors associated with suicidal ideation in junior high school students with autism spectrum disorder in Japan: A cross-sectional observational study.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundCompared to active ideation, passive ideation remains relatively understudied and its clinical importance poorly defined. The weight that should be accorded passive ideation in clinical risk assessment is therefore unclear.
methodsWe conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of passive ideation, its psychiatric comorbidity, associated sociodemographic characteristics, as well as psychological and environmental correlates. For reference, pooled effects were also calculated for direct comparisons of passive and active ideation with respect to potential correlates. Relevant articles published since inception to 9 September 2019 were identified through a systematic search of MEDLINE and PsycINFO.
resultsA total of 86 studies were included in this review. The prevalence of passive ideation was high across sample types, ranging from 5.8% for 1-year prevalence to 10.6% for lifetime prevalence in the general population. Passive ideation was strongly associated with sexual minority status, psychiatric comorbidity, psychological characteristics implicated in risk, and suicide attempts. Preliminary evidence exists for a large association with suicide deaths. The effect sizes for individual correlates of passive and active ideation were largely equivalent and mostly non-significant in head-to-head comparisons.
conclusionsPassive ideation is a prevalent clinical phenomenon associated with significant psychiatric comorbidity. Current evidence also suggests notable similarities exist between passive and active ideation in terms of psychiatric comorbidity and psychological and other characteristics traditionally associated with risk.
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