Risk Factors for Multiple Suicide Attempts in Adolescents From 10 Years Suicide Repository.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While there are many studies on adolescents' suicide attempts in the western countries, studies on adolescent suicide in South Korea are relatively scarce. We compared demographical and clinical variables between the first and multiple suicide attempters and examined potential risk factors predicting multiple suicide attempts.

Methods

Two hundred forty-eight suicide attempters aged from 11 to 19 years old who visited emergency department of Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, South Korea were recruited and divided into two groups: first attempter (n = 139, 56%) and multiple attempter (n = 109, 44%). A psychiatric interview with the Brief Emergency Room Suicide Risk Assessment were administered to all participants, and univariate analyses to compare characteristics of t

SUBMITTER: Kim S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11611657 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature