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Published on: November 21, 2013
Suicidal behaviors in children and adolescents with psychotic disorders
Sarah Hope Lincoln1, Emily Norkett1, Kelsey Graber1
1Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, United States.
Abstract:
Suicide is the leading cause of premature death in individuals with psychotic disorders. Risk for onset of suicidal behaviors tends to begin in adolescence, remaining high into young adulthood. The present study aims to evaluate the interplay of early onset psychosis and suicide risk by examining suicidal behaviors (ideation, planning, and attempts) in children and adolescents with psychotic disorders (PD) compared to typically developing peers (TD). Twenty five youths were recruited and were diagnostically evaluated for psychosis. We found that the PD children exhibited significantly higher levels of suicidal behaviors than TD children, even when parsed into individual at-risk behaviors.
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