Understanding suicide risk within the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework: A meta-analytic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The field is in need of novel and transdiagnostic risk factors for suicide. The National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) provides a framework that may help advance research on suicidal behavior.

Method

We conducted a meta-analytic review of existing prospective risk and protective factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors (ideation, attempts, and deaths) that fall within one of the five RDoC domains or relate to a prominent suicide theory. Predictors were selected from a database of 4,082 prospective risk and protective factors for suicide outcomes.

Results

A total of 460 predictors met inclusion criteria for this meta-analytic review and most examined risk (vs. protective) factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The over

SUBMITTER: Glenn CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5760472 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature