Characteristics and mental disorder diagnosis of suicide attempters / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ObjectiveTo understand the behavioral characteristics,strength on suicide ideation and mental disorder diagnosis among suicide attempers,so as to provide consultation for crisis intervention of suicide.Methods232 suicide attempters from emergency of 5 general hospital in south-west of Shandong province were enrolled.They were assessed using questionnaires on attempted suicide behaviors and scale on the strength of suicide ideation,and were diagnosed using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-Ⅳ Disorders axis Ⅰ for patient (SCID/I-P).Results( 1 ) In the total of 232 cases,female was more than male with the gender ratio of 2.87 (female vs male).The highest proportion rate (56.9％) existed between 16 years old to 35 years old.Oral application pesticide was the most commom suicide pattern (83.2％),91.4％ of the suicide attempt occurred in the their homes.The top three reasons leading to suicide were family contrary (61.2％),depressive mood (15.1％)and fail in love (9.5％).(2) In all cases,83.6％ did not think if they were found,84.1％ did not adopted any precaution measures,over 60.0％ did not tell anyone their attempted plans,and 90％ had no dying structions and /or dying testaments before their attempted behaviors.At the moment of attemp behaviors,62.9％ did not contact with someone.The 60.0％ of all the cases had wanted strongly to die,otherwise 7.3％ had wanted to manipulate others.(3) The diagnosis rate of mental disorder on DSM-Ⅳ was 45.3％,in which the mood disorder was most.ConclusionThere are no changes on the behavioral characteristics among the suicide attempters in the south-west rural area of Shandong province.Their strength of suicide ideation are moderate,and a certain proportion of suicide attempters may be impulsive suicide attempters.There is more relationship between mental disorder and suicide attempt.

Comparison of the clinical and social-psychological characteristics of suicide attempters with and without mental disorder / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ObjectiveTo compare the clinical and social-psychological characteristics of patients with and without mental disorder.MethodsBase the diagnosis of mental disorder,232 suicide attempters were divided into two groups:suicide attempter with mental disorder ( 105 cases) and suicide attempter without mental disorder (127 cases).The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-Ⅳ,the Strength of Suicide Ideation,Health Questionnaire of WHO,Questionnaire of Life Measure (QLM),Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI),Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS) and Buss Aggressiveness Scale (BAS),Social Support Rate Scale and Questionnaire of Coping Style (QCS) were conducted.ResultsThe 105 suicide attempters with a mental disorder were older than the 127 suicide attempter without a mental disorder ( 37.9 ± 14.5 vs 32.9 ± 13.3,t =2.710,P =0.007 ),and the percentage of female was lower in the former than in the later(65.7％ vs 81.1％,x2 =7.099,P =0.008 ).In the total of 232 cases,female was more than male with the gender ratio of 2.87 ( female vs male).The strength level of suicide ideation was higher ( 7.1 ± 2.8 vs 4.8 ± 2.3,t =6.498,P =0.000).The scores of health questionnaire of WHO,BDI and BAI were higher in the suicide attempters with a mental disorder than those without a mental disorder,otherwise the scores of QLM,BIS and its three sub-scales were higher.Among QCS,the sub-score of Self-blaming was higher,and the sub-scores of Question solvation and Asking for help were lower.ConclusionThere are distinguished differences on the sociodemographic and psychological characteristics among the suicide attempters with and without a mental disorder.Mental diseases play an important role in the development of suicide attempter with a mental disorder.

A paired case-control study on psychosocial factors of suicide attempters / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

Objective To explore the roles on psychosocial factors of suicide behavior in the suicide attempters.Methods132 suicide attempters and 132 matched controls treated in the emergency department were assessed using certain psychosocial questionnaires,such as Health Questionnaire of WHO,Questionnaire of Life Measure ( QLM),Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory ( BAI),Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS) and Buss Aggressiveness Scale ( BAS),Social Surpport Rate Scale and Questionnaire of Coping Style (QCS).Results( 1 ) The results of single-factor analysis showed that the scores of Health Questionnaire of WHO and QL were lower in the suicide attempter group than those in the control group( suicide attempter group:17.07±3.07 and 9.76 ±7.11; control group:13.42 ±3.31 and 17.08 ±3.81,all P＜0.05),otherwise the scores of BDI,BAI,BIS and BAS were higher( suicide attempter group:15.22 ± 11.22,27.87 ± 7.24,87.67 ±20.08 and 73.74 ± 19.61 ; control group:6.87 ± 6.36,26.22 ± 5.44,73.34 ± 14.54 and 63.78 ± 16.44,all P ＜ 0.05 ).Among QCS,the sub-score of self-blaming was higher( 3.42 ± 2.44 VS 2.35 ± 2.04,P ＜ 0.05 ),otherwise the sub-scores of question solvation,asking for help and rationalization were lower( all P ＜ 0.05 ).( 2 ) The result of multi-factors analysis showed that gender,mean education times,the scores of QL,HQ,BDI,and BIS,sub-score of rationalization,and so on,entried the Logistic aggressive equaltion.Conclusion The status of health,quality of life,depressive and anxious mood,impulsive and aggressive personality,and certain coping style play important role.