Prevalence of and risk factors for lifetime suicide attempts in the National Comorbidity Survey

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 617-626

  Kessler, Ronald C ^a   Borges, Guilherme ^a,b   Walters, Ellen E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 0033015727     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.56.7.617     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Kessler RC, McGonagle KA, Zhao S, Nelson CB, Hughes M, Eshleman S, Wittchen HU, Kendler KS. Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders in the United States: results from the National Comorbidity Survey. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1994;51:8-19.
2. Brent DA, Perper JA. Research in adolescent suicide: implication for training, service delivery and public policy. Suicide Lite Threat Behav. 1995;25:222-230.
3. Nordstrom P, Samuelsson M, Asberg M. Survival analysis of suicide risk after attempted suicide. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1995;91:336-340.
4. Johnsson-Fridell E, Ojehagen A, Traskman-Bendz L. A 5-year follow-up study of suicide attempts. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1996;93:151-157.
5. Moscicki EK. Epidemiology of suicidal behavior. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1995; 25:22-35.
6. Lewinsohn PM, Clark GN, Seeley JR, Rohde P. Major depression in community adolescents: age at onset, episode duration, and time to recurrence. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1994;33:809-818.
7. Paykel ES, Myers JK, Lindenthal JJ, Tanner J. Suicidal feelings in the general population: a prevalence study. Br J Psychiatry. 1974;124:460-469.
8. Moscicki EK, O'Carroll P, Rae DS, Locke BZ, Roy A, Regier DA. Suicide attempts in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study. Yale J Biol Med. 1988;61:259-268.
9. Lewinsohn PM, Rohde P, Seeley JR. Adolescent suicidal ideation and attempts: prevalence, risk factors, and clinical implications. Clin Psychol Sci Pract. 1996; 3:25-46.
10. Bolger N, Downey G, Walker E, Steininger P. The onset of suicidal ideation in childhood and adolescence. J Youth Adolesc. 1989;18:175-190.
11. Moscicki EK. Gender differences in completed and attempted suicides. Ann Epidemiol. 1994;4:152-158.
12. Kreitman N. Suicide, age and marital status. Psychol Med. 1988;18:121-128.
13. Petronis KR, Samuels JF, Moscicki EK, Anthony JC. An epidemiologic investigation of potential risk factors for suicide attempts. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 1990;25:193-199.
14. Sorenson SB, Golding JM. Suicide ideation and attempts in Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites: demographic and psychiatric disorder issues. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1988;18:205-218.
15. Moscicki EK. Identification of suicide risk factors using epidemiologic studies. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 1997;20:499-518.
16. Roberts RE, Chen YR, Roberts CR. Ethnocultural differences in prevalence of adolescent suicidal behaviors. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1997;27:208-217.
17. Appelby L, Tumbull G. Parasuicide in the first postnatal year. Psychol Med. 1995; 25:1087-1090.
18. Juon HS, Ensminger ME. Childhood, adolescent, and young adult predictors of suicidal behaviors: a prospective study of African Americans. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1997;38:533-563.
19. Weissman MM, Gerald LK, Markowitz JS, Ouellette R. Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in panic disorder and attacks. N Engl J Med. 1989;321:1209-1214.
20. Brent DA, Kalas R, Edelbrock C, Costello AJ, Dulcan MK, Conover N. Psychopathology and its relationship to suicidal ideation in childhood and adolescence. J Am Acad Child Psychiatry. 1986;25:666-673.
21. Reinherz HZ, Giaconia RM, Silverman AB, Friedman A, Pakiz B, Frost AK, Cohen E. Early psychosocial risks for adolescent suicidal ideation and attempts. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1995;34:599-611.
22. Gould MS, King R, Greenwald S, Fisher P, Schwabstone M, Kramer R, Flisher AJ, Goodman S, Canino G, Shatter D. Psychopathology associated with suicidal ideation and attempts among children and adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1998;37:915-923.
23. Goldston DB, Daniel SS, Reboussin BA, Reboussin DM, Kelley AE, Frazier RH. Psychiatric diagnoses of previous suicide attempters, first-time attempters, and repeat attempters on an adolescent inpatient psychiatry unit. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1998;37:924-932.
24. Kessler RC, Little RJA, Groves RM. Advances in strategies for minimizing and adjusting for survey nonresponse. Epidemiol Rev. 1995;17:192-204.
25. World Health Organization. Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), Version 1.0. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 1990.
26. Wittchen H-U. Reliability and validity studies of the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI): a critical review. J Psychiatr Res. 1994;28: 57-84
27. Kessler RC, Wittchen H-U, Abelson JM, McGonagle KA, Schwartz N, Kendler KS, Knäuper B, Zhao S. Methodological studies of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) in the U.S. National Comorbidity Survey. Int J Meth Psychiatr Res. 1998;7:33-55.
28. Kessler RC, Rubinow DR, Holmes C, Abelson JM, Zhao S. The epidemiology of DSM-III-R bipolar I disorder in a general population survey. Psychol Med. 1997; 27:1079-1089.
29. Kendler KS, Gallagher TJ, Abelson JM, Kessler RC. Lifetime prevalence, demographic risk factors, and diagnostic validity of nonaffective psychosis as assessed in a US community sample: the National Comorbidity Survey. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1996;53:1022-1031.
30. Robins LN, Wing J, Wittchen HU, Heizer JE, Babor TF, Burke J, Farmer A, Jablenski A, Pickens R, Regier DA, Sartorious N, Towle LH. The Composite International Diagnostic Interview: an epidemiologic instrument suitable for use in conjunction with different diagnostic systems and in different cultures. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1988;45:1069-1077.
31. SAS Inc. STATUser's Guide, Version 6. Cary, NC: SAS Institute; 1990.
32. Efron B. Logistic regression, survival analysis, and the Kaplan-Meier curve. J Am Sociol Assoc. 1988;83:414-425.
33. Kessler RC, Sonnega A, Bromet E, Hughes M, Nelson CB. Posttraumatic stress disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 1995;52: 1048-1060.
34. Kish L, Frankel MR. Balanced repeated replications for standard errors. J Am Stat Assoc. 1970;65:1071-1094.
35. Kessler RC, McRae JA. Trends in the relationship between sex and attempted suicide. J Health Soc Behav. 1983;24:98-110.
36. Giuffra LA, Risch N. Diminished recall and the cohort effect of major depression: a simulation study. Psychol Med. 1994;24:375-383.
37. Safer DJ. Adolescent/adult differences in suicidal behavior and outcome. Ann Clin Psychiatry. 1997;9:61-66.
38. Ramsay R, Bagley C. The prevalence of suicidal behaviors, attitudes and associated social experiences in an urban population. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1985; 15:151-167.
39. Schwab JJ, Warheit GJ, Holzer CE. Suicidal ideation and behavior in a general population. Dis Nerv Syst. 1972;33:745-748.
40. O'Carroll P, Berman AL, Maris RW, Moscicki EK, Tanney BL, Silverman MM. Beyond the Tower of Babel: a nomenclature for suicidology. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1996;26:237-252.
41. Garrison CZ, McKeown RE, Valois RF, Vincent ML. Aggression, substance use, and suicidal behaviors in high school students. Am J Public Health. 1993;83: 179-184.
42. Brown LK, Overholser JC, Spirito A, Fritz GK. The correlates of planning in adolescent suicide attempts. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1991;30:95-99.
43. Kachur SP, Potter LB, James SP, Powell KE. Suicide in the United States, 1980-1992. Atlanta, Ga: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 1995. Violence Surveillance Summary Series, No. 1.
44. Diekstra CZ, Gulbinat W. The epidemiology of suicidal behavior: a review of three continents. World Health Stat Q. 1993;46:52-68.
45. Hawton K, Fagg J. Deliberate self-poisoning and self-injury in adolescents: a study of characteristics and trends in Oxford, 1976-89. Br J Psychiatry. 1992;161:816-823.
46. McEvedy CJ. Trends in self-poisoning: admissions to a central London hospital, 1991-1994. J R Soc Med. 1997;90:496-498.
47. Bille-Brahe U. The role of sex and age in suicidal behavior. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1993;371(suppl):21-27.
48. Beautrais AL, Joyce PR, Mulder RT, Fergusson DM, Deavoll BJ, Nightingale SK. Prevalence and Comorbidity of mental disorders in persons making serious suicide attempts: a case-control study. Am J Psychiatry. 1996;153:1009-1014.
49. Adams DM, Overholser JC. Suicidal behavior and history of substance abuse. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 1992;18:343-354.
50. Wonderlich U, Bronisch T, Wittchen H-U. Comorbidity patterns in adolescents and young adults with suicide attempts. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 1998; 248:87-95.
51. Lewinsohn PM, Rohde P, Seeley JR. Adolescent psychopathology, III: the clinical consequences of comorbidity. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1995; 34:510-519.
52. Suominen K, Henriksson M, Suokas J, Isometsä E, Ostamo A, Lönnqvist J. Mental disorders and comorbidity in attempted suicide. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1996; 94:234-240.
53. Rudd MD, Dahm PF, Rajab MH. Diagnostic comorbidity in persons with suicidal ideation and behavior. Am J Psychiatry. 1993;150:928-934.
54. Bronisch T, Wittchen H-U. Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts: comorbidity with depression, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse disorder. EurArch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 1994;244:93-98.
55. Brent DA. Correlates of the medical lethality of suicide attempts in children and adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1987;26:87-91.
56. van der Sande R, Buskens E, Allart E, van der Graaf Y, van Engeland H. Psychosocial intervention following suicide attempt: a systematic review of treatment interventions. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1997;96:43-50.
57. Power K, Davies C, Swanson V, Gordon D, Carter H. Case-control study of GP attendance rates by suicide cases with or without a psychiatric history. Br J Gen Pract. 1997;47:211-215.