The application of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide to a sample of Swiss patients attending a psychiatric emergency department for a non-lethal suicidal event

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 210, Issue , 2017, Pages 323-331

  Baertschi, Marc ^a   Costanza, Alessandra ^b   Richard Lepouriel, Hélène ^b   Pompili, Maurizio ^c   Sarasin, François ^b   Weber, Kerstin ^b   Canuto, Alessandra ^a  

^a Mobile Team for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Service for Child and Adolescent Nant Foundation   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acquired capability for suicide; Interpersonal psychological theory of suicide; Perceived burdensomeness; Suicidal ideation; Suicide attempt; Thwarted belongingness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH; EMERGENCY WARD; EMOTION; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEIVED BURDENSOMENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SWISS; THWARTED BELONGINGNESS; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; HOPE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HUMAN RELATION; LONELINESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOPE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF CONCEPT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 85008674825     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2016.12.049     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Abramson, L.Y., Metalsky, G.I., Alloy, L.B., Hopelessness depression : a theory-based subtype of depression. Psychol. Rev. 96 (1989), 358–372.
2. Anestis, M.D., Khazem, L.R., Mohn, R.S., Green, B.A., Testing the main hypotheses of the interpersonal–psychological theory of suicidal behavior in a large diverse sample of United States military personnel. Compr. Psychiatry 60 (2015), 78–85, 10.1016/j.comppsych.2015.03.006.
3. Beck, A.T., Brown, G.K., Steer, R.A., Psychometric characteristics of the scale for suicide ideation with psychiatric outpatients. Behav. Res. Ther. 35 (1997), 1039–1046.
4. Beck, A.T., Kovacs, M., Weissman, A., Assessment of suicidal intention: the scale for suicide ideation. J. Consult. Clin. Psychol. 47 (1979), 343–352, 10.1037/0022-006X.47.2.343.
5. Beck, A.T., Steer, R.A., Manual for Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation. 1991, Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX.
6. Becker, T.E., Atinc, G., Breaugh, J.A., Carlson, K.D., Edwards, J.R., Spector, P.E., Statistical control in correlational studies: 10 essential recommendations for organizational researchers. J. Organ. Behav. 37 (2016), 157–167, 10.1002/job.2053.
7. Boudreaux, E.D., Cagande, C., Kilgannon, H., Kumar, A., Camargo, C.A., A prospective study of depression among adult patients in an urban emergency department. Prim. Care Companion J. Clin. Psychiatry 8 (2006), 66–70, 10.4088/PCC.v08n0202.
8. Boudreaux, E.D., Camargo, C.A., Arias, S.A., Sullivan, A.F., Allen, M.H., Goldstein, A.B., Manton, A.P., Espinola, J.A., Miller, I.W., Improving suicide risk screening and detection in the emergency department. Am. J. Prev. Med., 2015, 1–9, 10.1016/j.amepre.2015.09.029.
9. Boudreaux, E.D., Clark, S., Camargo, C.A., Mood disorder screening among adult emergency department patients: a multicenter study of prevalence, associations and interest in treatment. Gen. Hosp. Psychiatry 30 (2008), 4–13, 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2007.09.006.
10. Caterino, J.M., Sullivan, A.F., Betz, M.E., Espinola, J. a., Miller, I., Camargo, C. a., Boudreaux, E.D., Evaluating current patterns of assessment for self-harm in emergency departments: a multicenter study. Acad. Emerg. Med. 20 (2013), 807–815, 10.1111/acem.12188.
11. Christensen, H., Batterham, P.J., Mackinnon, A.J., Donker, T., Soubelet, A., Predictors of the risk factors for suicide identified by the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behaviour. Psychiatry Res. 219 (2014), 290–297, 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.05.029.
12. Christensen, H., Batterham, P.J., Soubelet, A., MacKinnon, A.J., A test of the interpersonal theory of suicide in a large community-based cohort. J. Affect. Disord. 144 (2013), 225–234, 10.1016/j.jad.2012.07.002.
13. Claassen, C.A., Larkin, G.L., Occult suicidality in an emergency department population. Br. J. Psychiatry 186 (2005), 352–353, 10.1192/bjp.186.4.352.
14. Claassen, C.A., Trivedi, M.H., Shimizu, I., Stewart, S., Larkin, G.L., Litovitz, T., Epidemiology of nonfatal deliberate self-harm in the United States as described in three medical databases. Suicide Life. Threat. Behav. 36 (2006), 192–212, 10.1521/suli.2006.36.2.192.
15. Clarke, D.M., Kissane, D.W., Demoralization: its phenomenology and importance. Aust. N. Z. J. Psychiatry 36 (2002), 733–742, 10.1046/j.1440-1614.2002.01086.x.
16. Conrad, R., Walz, F., Geiser, F., Imbierowicz, K., Liedtke, R., Wegener, I., Temperament and character personality profile in relation to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in major depressed patients. Psychiatry Res. 170 (2009), 212–217, 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.09.008.
17. Cornette, M.M., deRoon-Cassini, T.A., Fosco, G.M., Holloway, R.L., Clark, D.C., Joiner, T.E., Application of an interpersonal-psychological model of suicidal behavior to physicians and medical trainees. Arch. Suicide Res. 13 (2009), 1–14, 10.1080/13811110802571801.
18. Cukrowicz, K.C., Cheavens, J.S., Van Orden, K.A., Ragain, R.M., Cook, R.L., Perceived burdensomeness and suicide ideation in older adults. Psychol. Aging 26 (2011), 331–338, 10.1037/a0021836.
19. Dancey, C.P., Reidy, J., Statistics Without Maths for Psychology, 5th ed., 2011, Pearson Education, Harlow.
20. de Figueiredo, J.M., Distress, demoralization and psychopathology: diagnostic boundaries. Eur. J. Psychiatry 27 (2013), 61–73, 10.4321/s0213-61632013000100008.
21. De Man, A.F., Balkou, S.T., Iglesias, R.I., A French-Canadian adaptation of the scale for suicide ideation. Can. J. Behav. Sci. Can. Des. Sci. Comport. 19 (1987), 50–55, 10.1037/h0079870.
22. De Man, A.F., Leduc, C.P., Labrèche-Gauthier, L., A French-Canadian scale for suicide ideation for use with adolescents. Can. J. Behav. Sci. Can. Des. Sci. Comport. 25 (1993), 126–134, 10.1037/h0078786.
23. Dhingra, K., Boduszek, D., O'Connor, R.C., Differentiating suicide attempters from suicide ideators using the Integrated motivational–volitional model of suicidal behaviour. J. Affect. Disord. 186 (2015), 211–218, 10.1016/j.jad.2015.07.007.
24. Ellis, B.H., Lankau, E.W., Ao, T., Benson, M.A., Miller, A.B., Shetty, S., Lopes Cardozo, B., Geltman, P.L., Cochran, J., Understanding Bhutanese refugee suicide through the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior. Am. J. Orthopsychiatr. 85 (2015), 43–55, 10.1037/ort0000028.
25. Federal Office of Public Health FOPH, 2005. Suicide and suicide prevention in Switzerland. Report in Fulfillment of the Postulate Widmer (02.3251).
26. Friedman, T., Newton, C., Coggan, C., Hooley, S., Patel, R., Pickard, M., Mitchell, A.J., Predictors of A&E staff attitudes to self-harm patients who use self-laceration: influence of previous training and experience. J. Psychosom. Res. 60 (2006), 273–277, 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2005.07.007.
27. Heelis, R., Graham, H., Jackson, C., A preliminary test of the interpersonal psychological theory of suicidal behavior in young people with a first episode of psychosis. J. Clin. Psychol. 72 (2016), 79–87, 10.1002/jclp.22233.
28. Henson, R.K., Understanding internal consistency reliability estimates: a conceptual primer on coefficient alpha. Meas. Eval. Couns. Dev. 34 (2001), 177–189.
29. Holden, R.R., DeLisle, M.M., Factor analysis of the beck scale for suicide ideation with female suicide attempters. Assessment 12 (2005), 231–238, 10.1177/1073191105274925.
30. Hussey, I., Barnes-Holmes, D., Booth, R., Individuals with current suicidal ideation demonstrate implicit “fearlessness of death. J. Behav. Ther. Exp. Psychiatry 51 (2016), 1–9, 10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.11.003.
31. Ireland, J.L., York, C., Exploring application of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behaviour to self-injurious behaviour among women prisoners: proposing a new model of understanding. Int. J. Law Psychiatry 35 (2012), 70–76, 10.1016/j.ijlp.2011.11.006.
32. Joiner, T.E., Why People Die by Suicide. 2005, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
33. Joiner, T.E., Rudd, M.D., Rajab, M.H., The modified scale for suicidal ideation: factors of suicidality and their relation to clinical and diagnostic variables. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 106 (1997), 260–265, 10.1037/0021-843X.106.2.260.
34. Joiner, T.E., Van Orden, K.A., Witte, T.K., Selby, E.A., Ribeiro, J.D., Lewis, R., Rudd, M.D., Main predictions of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior: empirical tests in two samples of young adults. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 118 (2009), 634–646, 10.1037/a0016500.
35. Kim, S., Yang, E., Suicidal ideation in gay men and lesbians in South Korea: a test of the interpersonal-psychological model. Suicide Life-Threat. Behav. 45 (2015), 98–110, 10.1111/sltb.12119.
36. Kissane, D.W., Wein, S., Love, A., Lee, X.Q., Kee, P.L., Clarke, D.M., The demoralization scale: a report of its development and preliminary validation. J. Palliat. Care 20 (2004), 269–276.
37. Klonsky, E.D., May, A.M., Differentiating suicide attempters from suicide ideators: a critical frontier for suicidology research. Suicide Life-Threat. Behav. 44 (2014), 1–5, 10.1111/sltb.12068.
38. Lance, C.E., The sources of four commonly reported cutoff criteria: what did they really say?. Organ. Res. Methods 9 (2006), 202–220, 10.1177/1094428105284919.
39. Larkin, G.L., Beautrais, A.L., Emergency departments are underutilized sites for suicide prevention. Crisis 31 (2010), 1–6, 10.1027/0227-5910/a000001.
40. Larkin, G.L., Smith, R.P., Beautrais, A.L., Trends in US emergency department visits for suicide attempts, 1992–2001. Crisis 29 (2008), 73–80, 10.1027/0227-5910.29.2.73.
41. Lin, C.J., Lu, H.C., Sun, F.J., Fang, C.K., Wu, S.I., Liu, S.I., The characteristics, management, and aftercare of patients with suicide attempts who attended the emergency department of a general hospital in northern Taiwan. J. Chin. Med. Assoc. 77 (2014), 317–324, 10.1016/j.jcma.2014.02.014.
42. Ma, J., Batterham, P.J., Calear, A.L., Han, J., A systematic review of the predictions of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behaviour. Clin. Psychol. Rev. 46 (2016), 34–45, 10.1016/j.cpr.2016.04.008.
43. Mandracchia, J.T., Smith, P.N., The interpersonal theory of suicide applied to male prisoners. Suicide Life. Threat. Behav. 45 (2015), 293–301, 10.1111/sltb.12132.
44. Meehl, P.E., High school yearbooks: a reply to Schwarz. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 77 (1971), 143–148, 10.1037/h0030750.
45. Miller, T.R., Debra Furr-Holden, C., Lawrence, B.A., Weiss, H.B., Suicide deaths and nonfatal hospital admissions for deliberate self-harm in the United States. Crisis 33 (2012), 169–177, 10.1027/0227-5910/a000126.
46. Opperman, K., Czyz, E.K., Gipson, P.Y., King, C.A., Connectedness and perceived burdensomeness among adolescents at elevated suicide risk: an examination of the interpersonal theory of suicidal behavior. Arch. Suicide Res. 19 (2015), 385–400, 10.1080/13811118.2014.957451.
47. Park, E., Lee, H.Y., Factors influencing suicidal ideation among Korean adults by age: results of the 2010–2011 Korean health and nutrition examination survey. Community Ment. Health J., 2015, 987–993, 10.1007/s10597-015-9863-7.
48. Plöderl, M., Sellmeier, M., Fartacek, C., Pichler, E.-M., Fartacek, R., Kralovec, K., Explaining the suicide risk of sexual minority individuals by contrasting the minority stress model with suicide models. Arch. Sex. Behav. 43 (2014), 1559–1570, 10.1007/s10508-014-0268-4.
49. Pompili, M., Girardi, P., Ruberto, A., Kotzalidis, G.D., Tatarelli, R., Emergency staff reactions to suicidal and self-harming patients. Eur. J. Emerg. Med. 12 (2005), 169–178, 10.1097/00063110-200508000-00005.
50. Pompili, M., Goracci, A., Giordano, G., Erbuto, D., Girardi, P., Klonsky, E.D., Baldessarini, R.J., Relationship of non-suicidal self-injury and suicide attempt: a psychopathological perspective. J. Psychopathol. 21 (2015), 348–353.
51. Pompili, M., Innamorati, M., Di Vittorio, C., Sher, L., Girardi, P., Amore, M., Sociodemographic and clinical differences between suicide ideators and attempters: a study of mood disordered patients 50 years and older. Suicide Life-Threat. Behav. 44 (2014), 34–45, 10.1111/sltb.12051.
52. Posner, K., Oquendo, M.A., Gould, M., Stanley, B., Davies, M., Columbia classification algorithm of suicide assessment (C-CASA): classification of suicidal events in the FDA's pediatric suicidal risk analysis of antidepressants. Am. J. Psychiatry 164 (2007), 1035–1043, 10.1176/appi.ajp.164.7.1035.
53. Rogers, M.L., Stanley, I.H., Hom, M.A., Chiurliza, B., Podlogar, M.C., Joiner, T.E., Conceptual and empirical scrutiny of covarying depression out of suicidal ideation. 2016, Assessment ePub, ePub-ePub, 10.1177/1073191116645907.
54. Schnyder, U., Valach, L., Suicide attempters in a psychiatric emergency room population. Gen. Hosp. Psychiatry 19 (1997), 119–129.
55. Sheehan, D.V., Lecrubier, Y., Sheehan, K.H., Amorim, P., Janavs, J., Weiller, E., Hergueta, T., Baker, R., Dunbar, G.C., The Mini-International neuropsychiatric interview (M.I.N.I.): the development and validation of a structured diagnostic psychiatric interview for DSM-IV and ICD-10. J. Clin. Psychiatry, 59(Suppl 2), 1998 (22-33-57).
56. Silverman, M.M., Berman, A.L., Sanddal, N.D., O'Carroll, P.W., Joiner, T.E., Rebuilding the tower of Babel: a revised nomenclature for the study of suicide and suicidal behaviors. Part 1: background, rationale, and methodology. Suicide Life. Threat. Behav. 37 (2007), 248–263, 10.1521/suli.2007.37.3.248.
57. Steer, R.A., Rissmiller, D.J., Ranieri, W.F., Beck, A.T., Dimensions of suicidal ideation in psychiatric inpatients. Behav. Res. Ther. 31 (1993), 229–236, 10.1016/0005-7967(93)90090-H.
58. Stewart, S.M., Eaddy, M., Horton, S.E., Hughes, J., Kennard, B., The validity of the interpersonal theory of suicide in adolescence: a review. J. Clin. Child Adolesc. Psychol. 4416 (2015), 1–13, 10.1080/15374416.2015.1020542.
59. Teismann, T., Forkmann, T., Wachtel, S., Edel, M.-A., Nyhuis, P., Glaesmer, H., The German version of the painful and provocative events scale: a psychometric investigation. Psychiatry Res. 226 (2015), 264–272, 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.12.060.
60. Teismann, T., Förtsch, E.M.A.D., Baumgart, P., Het, S., Michalak, J., Influence of violent video gaming on determinants of the acquired capability for suicide. Psychiatry Res. 215 (2014), 217–222, 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.10.021.
61. Ting, S.A., Sullivan, A.F., Boudreaux, E.D., Miller, I., Camargo, C.A., Trends in US emergency department visits for attempted suicide and self-inflicted injury, 1993–2008. Gen. Hosp. Psychiatry 34 (2012), 557–565, 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2012.03.020.
62. Van Orden, K.A., The interpersonal theory of suicide: a useful theory ?. Lamis, D.A., Kaslow, N.J., (eds.) Advancing the Science of Suicidal Behavior: Understanding and Intervention, 2015, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, NY, 1–12.
63. Van Orden, K.A., Cukrowicz, K.C., Witte, T.K., Joiner, T.E., Thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness: construct validity and psychometric properties of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire. Psychol. Assess. 24 (2012), 197–215, 10.1037/a0025358.
64. Van Orden, K.A., Wiktorsson, S., Duberstein, P., Berg, A.I., Fässberg, M.M., Waern, M., Reasons for attempted suicide in later life. Am. J. Geriatr. Psychiatry 23 (2015), 536–544, 10.1016/j.jagp.2014.07.003.
65. Van Orden, K.A., Witte, T.K., Cukrowicz, K.C., Braithwaite, S.R., Selby, E.A., Joiner, T.E., The interpersonal theory of suicide. Psychol. Rev. 117 (2010), 575–600, 10.1037/a0018697.
66. Van Orden, K.A., Witte, T.K., Gordon, K.H., Bender, T.W., Joiner, T.E., Suicidal desire and the capability for suicide: tests of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior among adults. J. Consult. Clin. Psychol. 76 (2008), 72–83, 10.1037/0022-006X.76.1.72.
67. Wachtel, S., Vocks, S., Edel, M.A., Nyhuis, P., Willutzki, U., Teismann, T., Validation and psychometric properties of the German capability for suicide questionnaire. Compr. Psychiatry 55 (2014), 1292–1302, 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.03.008.
68. Witte, T.K., Joiner, T.E., Brown, G.K., Beck, A.T., Beckman, A., Duberstein, P., Conwell, Y., Factors of suicide ideation and their relation to clinical and other indicators in older adults. J. Affect. Disord. 94 (2006), 165–172, 10.1016/j.jad.2006.04.005.
69. Yu, S.S.V., Sung, H.E., Suicidal ideation of probationers: gender differences. Crisis 36 (2015), 424–432, 10.1027/0227-5910/a000336.
70. Zeppegno, P., Gramaglia, C., Castello, L.M., Bert, F., Gualano, M.R., Ressico, F., Coppola, I., Avanzi, G.C., Siliquini, R., Torre, E., Suicide attempts and emergency room psychiatric consultation. BMC Psychiatry, 15, 2015, 13, 10.1186/s12888-015-0392-2.
71. Zhao, C., Dang, X., Su, X., Bai, J., Ma, L., Epidemiology of suicide and associated socio-demographic factors in emergency department patients in 7 general hospitals in northwestern. Med. Sci. Monit. 21 (2015), 2743–2749, 10.12659/MSM.894819.