Suicidal Ideation and Attempts during Middle Childhood: Associations with Subjective Quality of Life and Depression - Open Journal of Medical Psychology

OJMP > Vol.2 No.3, July 2013

Suicidal Ideation and Attempts during Middle Childhood: Associations with Subjective Quality of Life and Depression ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojmp.2013.23015 5,826 Downloads 9,545 Views Citations

Author(s)

Sylvie Bourdet-Loubère, Jean-Philippe Raynaud

Affiliation(s)

CHU de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
Laboratoire LCPI, Université Toulouse II, Toulouse, France.

ABSTRACT

Background: Confronted to the increasing suicide rate in children, clinicians have to better understand and predict suicide-related behaviours (SRBs) in children with and without depressive symptoms. Aims: To investigate associations among suicidal tendencies (thoughts and/or attempts), depression and children’s perceptions of subjective quality of life. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of 157 children of 6 - 13-year-old. Results: Children who attempted or thought of suicide reported goodless subjective quality of life than nonsuicidal children did, and children who thought of or attempted suicide reported higher levels of depressive symptoms than nonsuicidal children. Limitations: A more rigorous approach to investigating suicidal ideation and depressive symptomatology as a diagnostic interview based on the DSM-IV-TR will be valuable to future progress in understanding children’s suicidality. Conclusions: Results may reflect the confirmation of depressive symptoms as risk factors for suicidality and underline the high importance of social and emotional life context among suicidal children. For this reason, more effective recognition and comprehension of the underlying affective and social conditions of children with suicidality have special importance to prevent future suicidal behaviour during adolescence.

KEYWORDS

Suicide Ideation; Suicide Attempt; Subjective Quality of Life; Depression; Children

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Bourdet-Loubère, S. and Raynaud, J. (2013) Suicidal Ideation and Attempts during Middle Childhood: Associations with Subjective Quality of Life and Depression. Open Journal of Medical Psychology, 2, 93-100. doi: 10.4236/ojmp.2013.23015.

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