Citation

You S, Talbot NL, He H, Conner KR. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2012; 42(3): 244-254.

Affiliation

Sungeun You, Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, South Korea; Nancy L. Talbot, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA; Hua He, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA; Kenneth R. Conner, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, and Canandaigua Veterans Administration Center of Excellence, Canandaigua, NY, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1943-278X.2012.00086.x

PMID

22409700

Abstract

Depressed women with sexual abuse histories have a heightened risk of suicidal ideation (SI), which may be only in part attributable to psychiatric symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Emotions and SI were studied among 106 women with histories of childhood sexual abuse enrolled in treatment trials for major depression. Assessments were conducted at baseline, 10, 24, and 36 weeks. Sadness, guilt, and shame-proneness were associated with self-reported and observer-rated SI across time after adjusting for depressive and PTSD symptoms, suicide attempt history, and sociodemographic characteristics associated with SI. These findings highlight the need for clinical attention to self-directed negative emotions to potentially reduce suicide-related risk.

Language: en