Children's cognitive performance and suicide risk through middle adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Longitudinal studies show that lower cognitive performance in adolescence and early adulthood is associated with higher risk of suicide death throughout adulthood. However, it is unclear whether this cognitive vulnerability originates earlier in childhood since studies conducted in children are scarce and have inconsistent results.

Methods

Vital status of 49,853 individuals born between 1959 and 1966 to participants in the Collaborative Perinatal Project cohort was determined by a probabilistic linkage to the National Death Index, covering all US deaths occurring from 1979 through 2016. Cox proportional hazard models were used to examine associations of general, verbal, and non-verbal intelligence at ages 4 and 7, and academic skills at age 7 with suicide death co

SUBMITTER: Vidal-Ribas P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10524389 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature