Self-harm, suicidal ideation, and the positive symptoms of psychosis: Cross-sectional and prospective data from a national household survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Schizophrenia is associated with premature mortality, partly through increased suicide rates.

Aims

To examine (1) if persecutory ideas, auditory hallucinations, and probable cases of psychosis are associated with suicidal thoughts or attempts cross-sectionally and prospectively, and (2) if such links are mediated by specific affective factors (depression, impulsivity, mood instability).

Method

We analysed the 2000, 2007, and 2014 British Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys (APMS) separately. Measures of psychosis provided independent variables for multi-stage logistic regressions, with suicidal thoughts and attempts as dependent variables. We also conducted analyses to assess mediation by affective variables, and longitudinal analyses on a subset of the 200

SUBMITTER: de Cates AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8388846 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature