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Adolescent self-injurers: comparing non-ideators, suicide ideators, and suicide attempters.

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Stewart, Jeremy G., Esposito, Erika C., Glenn, Catherine R., Gilman, Stephen E., Pridgen, Bryan, Gold, Joseph, Auerbach, Randy P.·2017·Journal of Psychiatric Research

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Adolescent non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicidality are serious health concerns; however, factors that contribute to the transition from NSSI to suicide ideation and suicide attempts are unclear. To address this gap, we investigated whether demographic characteristics, child maltreatment, and psychiatric factors are associated with the level suicidality among adolescents with a history of self-injury. Participants were three groups of adolescent inpatient self-injurers (n = 397, 317 female), aged 13-18 years (M = 15.44, SD = 1.36): (a) non-ideators (n = 96; no current suicide ideation and no lifetime suicide attempts), (b) suicide ideators (n = 149; current ideation and no lifetime attempts), and (c) suicide attempters (n = 152; current ideation and at least one lifetime attempt). Participants completed interviews assessing psychiatric diagnoses, suicidality, and NSSI characteristics, as well as questionnaires on childhood trauma, psychiatric symptoms, and risky behavior engagement. Depression severity was associated with greater odds being a suicide ideator (p < 0.001, OR = 1.04) and an attempter (p < 0.001, OR = 1.05) compared to a non-ideator. Suicide attempters used more NSSI methods and reported greater risky behavior engagement than non-ideators (p = 0.03, OR = 1.29 and p = 0.03, OR = 1.06, respectively) and ideators (p = 0.015, OR = 1.25 and p = 0.04, OR = 1.05, respectively); attempters used more severe NSSI methods (e.g., burning). Our results identify a wide range of risk markers for increasing lethality in a sample at high risk for suicide mortality; future research is needed to refine risk assessments for adolescent self-injurers and determine the clinical utility of using risk markers for screening and intervention.

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  • Persistent death wishes in adolescents are typically interpreted as persistent or chronic suicidality.

    “Persistent death wishes in adolescents are typically interpreted as persistent or chronic suicidality, which is associated with increased hopelessness,8 emotion regulation problems,9 early-onset self-harm,10 and co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses.11”

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    The Abstract defines suicidal ideation as thoughts of killing oneself, but the paper does not say that persistent death wishes are typically interpreted as chronic suicidality. The Results (section 6.1; page unavailable) report earlier onset of self-injury among suicide attempters, which supports the sentence’s early-onset self-harm point, but the study does not establish an association with persistent suicidality. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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Authors
Stewart, J. G., Esposito, E. C., Glenn, C. R., Gilman, S. E., Pridgen, B., Gold, J., & Auerbach, R. P.
Affiliations
  • Harvard University (US)
  • University of Rochester (US)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
Stewart, Jeremy G.
Venue
Journal of Psychiatric Research
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-01
Volume
84
Pages
105-112
ISSN
0022-3956 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2529681323
Cited by
139
References
54
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 7
FWCI
14.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (K23MH097786)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
Keywords
non-suicidal self-injury, adolescent self-injury, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, suicide lethality, depression severity, child abuse, risk-taking, self-injury methods, suicide risk markers, psychiatric comorbidity
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Analysis of Variance, Depression, Female, Humans, Inpatients, Interview, Psychological, Male, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Surveys and Questionnaires, Risk-Taking, Suicide, Attempted, Multivariate Analysis, Self-Injurious Behavior, Suicidal Ideation

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