Stigmas and childhood traumas associated with psychological help-seeking in suicide attempted individuals
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Published on: March 8, 2018
Filiz Özsoy1, Gülay Taşcı2, Müberra Kulu3
1Department of Psychiatry, Gaziosmanpaşa University School of Medicine, Tokat, Turkey.
Purpose:
The aim was to investigate the possible associations of suicide attempt with childhood trauma, social support, psychological support seeking, stigmatizations. The study was case-control study and included 100 participants (50 suicide, 50 controls).
Conclusion:
BDI, BAI scores were higher in the patient (p < 0.001). While scores of all-subscales of Childhood-Trauma-Questionnaire were higher (p < 0.05) in the patients, scores of Perceived-Social-Support were lower (p < 0.001). Repeating suicide attempts has higher Stigma-Scale-for-Receiving-Psychological-Help scores than the patients who attempted to the first time (p = 0.045).
Practice Implication:
Suicide is relationship with more childhood traumas, less social support. Repeating suicide attempts, individuals felt public stigma for receiving psychological help.
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