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Previously suicidal adolescents: predictors of six-month outcome
Brian Greenfield1, Melissa Henry, Margaret Weiss
1McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec. brian.greenfield@muhc.mcgill.ca
Objective:
To determine the baseline variables, including borderline personality disorder (BPD), associated with the six-month outcome of previously suicidal adolescents (n=263) presenting to an emergency department and treated predominantly as out-patients.
Methods:
Multivariate logistic regression was used to analyze the associations between baseline variables and suicidality at six-month follow-up.
Results:
BPD, previous suicide attempt(s), drug use and female gender were associated with subsequent suicidality.
Conclusions:
These findings corroborate previously reported risk factors for recurring suicidality among adolescents and broaden their generalizability to those presenting to an emergency department, many diagnosed with BPD.
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