The Conditional Indirect Effects of Suicide Attempt History and Psychiatric Symptoms on the Association Between Intimate Partner Violence and Suicide Ideation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women seeking shelter from intimate partner violence (IPV) experience heightened risk for suicide ideation and attempts compared to abused and non-abused women in the general population. However, few theory-guided studies have examined what cognitive-emotional symptoms might underlie this increased risk.

Methods

Guided by fluid vulnerability theory, this cross-sectional, survey study tested whether depressive symptoms, PTSD symptoms, and hopelessness mediate the association between IPV (coercive control and physical violence) and suicide ideation and whether suicide attempt history facilitated these mediated relations in 134 women seeking shelter from IPV.

Results

Depressive symptoms, but not PTSD symptoms or hopelessness, mediated the relation between coer

SUBMITTER: Wolford-Clevenger C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5647881 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature