ArticleJournal of affective disorders2021
Age effects on clinical and neurocognitive risk factors for suicide attempt in depression - Findings from the AFSP lifespan study.
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- Childhood trauma is associated with early-onset but not late-onset suicidal behavior in late-life depression.International psychogeriatrics · 2024Article
- Is Late-Onset Suicidal Behavior a Distinct Subtype?The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2024Review
- Risk factors for suicidal attempts in a sample of outpatients with treatment-resistant depression: an observational study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Depression and suicide attempts in Chinese adolescents with mood disorders: the mediating role of rumination.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Entrapment and social problem-solving in suicidal behavior across the adult lifespan.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Article
- Spontaneous Thought Characteristics are Differentially Related to Heightened Negative Affect vs. Blunted Positive Affect in Adolescents: An Experience Sampling Study.JCPP advances · 2022Article
- The Relationship between Depressive Symptoms, Rumination, and Suicide Ideation in Patients with Depression.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundStudies of risk factors for suicidal behavior are typically restricted to narrow age ranges, making it difficult to determine if they have the same relevance or potency across the full adult lifespan.
methodsThis study examined selected clinical and neurocognitive risk factors for suicidal behavior - borderline personality traits, aggression, depressive rumination, memory performance, and language fluency- in a multi-site sample (N = 309, ages 16-80) of depressed patients with a recent (last 5 years) suicide attempt or no history of attempt, and demographically similar non-psychiatric controls. We examined cross-sectional age and attempter/non-attempter differences on these risk factors, and whether certain risk factors were more prominent discriminators of past suicide attempt earlier or later in the lifespan. Correlations with age were computed, and logistic regression was used to classify attempter status based on each risk factor and its interaction with age.
resultsNearly all risk factors were negatively correlated with age. Borderline traits, aggression, memory, and category fluency each predicted attempter status (p < 0.05), but these effects were not different across ages. In contrast, the association between rumination and suicide attempt status differed across the lifespan, becoming a stronger discriminator of past suicidal behavior at older ages. LIMITATIONS: The cross-sectional design limits our developmental findings.
conclusionsDespite age-related changes in symptom severity or neurocognitive performance, key risk factors for suicidal behavior previously identified in studies with more restricted age-ranges are salient throughout the adult lifespan. In contrast, depressive rumination may be particularly salient in later life.
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