Citation

Mihajlovic V, Tripp DA, Jacobson JA. J. Health Psychol. 2020; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Queen's University, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105320904750

PMID

32033518

Abstract

Given that suicidal behaviour is a pressing concern in inflammatory bowel disease populations, this study sought to model the sequence of variables that lead to its development. Participants (n = 282) completed online self-report questionnaires regarding predictors of suicidal behaviour. A cross-sectional model of the progression from symptoms to suicide risk revealed that biomedical variables were significantly associated with psychosocial predictors of suicidal behaviour, which were significantly related to theory-driven predictors of suicidal behaviour, which were ultimately associated with suicide risk. Evidently, interventions need to target distal predictors of suicidal behaviour to mitigate harmful downstream effects.

Language: en

Keywords

chronic illness; clinical health psychology; psychological distress; risk factors; suicide