Childhood adversities and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among first-year college students: results from the WMH-ICS initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To investigate the associations of childhood adversities (CAs) with lifetime onset and transitions across suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) among incoming college students.

Methods

Web-based self-report surveys administered to 20,842 incoming college students from nine countries (response rate 45.6%) assessed lifetime suicidal ideation, plans and attempts along with seven CAs: parental psychopathology, three types of abuse (emotional, physical, sexual), neglect, bully victimization, and dating violence. Logistic regression estimated individual- and population-level associations using CA operationalizations for type, number, severity, and frequency.

Results

Associations of CAs with lifetime ideation and the transition from ideation to plan were best explain

SUBMITTER: Mortier P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8878415 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature