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Social Support and Suicidal Ideation in Older Adults Using Home Healthcare Services
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Objective The objective of this study was to examine the associations between objective and subjective social support and suicidal ideation in older adults receiving home healthcare services.Method Participants were randomly selected from a sample of older adults newly starting skilled nursing care from a certified home health agency in Westchester County, NY. Research interviewers assessed 522 older adults aged 65 years and older who were receiving home care services. Subjective and objective components of social support were assessed using measures of social network, social interaction patterns, instrumental support, and perceptions of social support. Suicidal ideation was assessed using items from the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition and the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale.Results In bivariate analyses, neither objectively determined size of social network nor instrumental support was associated with suicidal ideation. However, lower social interaction patterns and lower perceived social support were significantly related to suicidal ideation. After adjusting for potential confounders, only lower perceived support remained significantly associated with suicidal ideation. In post hoc analyses of the perceptions of social support scale items, satisfaction with one's relationships and feeling useful to family and friends were significantly associated with a lower likelihood of suicidal ideation in the final multivariate logistic regression model controlling for possible confounding variables.Conclusions Subjective social support is a potentially modifiable risk factor for suicide in later life. Findings suggest that the perception of social support is an important construct to examine in future longitudinal studies examining risk and protective factors for suicidal ideation and behaviors in older adults.
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“Seven studies (with eight publications) focused on death wishes/suicide ideation [27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34].”
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“Three of the five analyses of frequency of social contact (across 3 studies, all from the U.S. [28,32,41]) yielded significant associations between low contact and both suicide ideation and suicide.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rowe, J. L., Conwell, Y., Schulberg, H. C., & Bruce, M. L.
- Affiliations
- Cornell University (US)
- University of Rochester Medicine (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rowe, Jennifer L.
- Venue
- The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-09
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 758-766
- ISSN
- 1064-7481 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2054667081
- Cited by
- 153
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 7.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5t32mh020061-25)
- National Institute of Mental Health (T32 MH20061, R24-MH64608, R24MH064608, T32-MH020061)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Aging, Health, and Disability
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Health and Well-being Studies
- Keywords
- social support, suicidal ideation, older adults, home health care services, perceived social support, social interaction patterns, instrumental support, social networks, suicide risk factors, skilled nursing care, relationship satisfaction
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Catchment Area, Health, Demography, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Home Care Services, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, New York, Personal Satisfaction, Risk Factors, Social Support, Suicide, Attempted
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