@article{ref1,
title="Age of first suicide attempt in men and women: an admixture analysis",
journal="ScientificWorldJournal",
year="2012",
author="Blasco-Fontecilla, Hilario and Alegria, Analucía A. and Delgado-Gomez, David and Legido-Gil, Teresa and Saiz-Ruiz, Jeronimo and Oquendo, Maria A. and Baca-Garcia, Enrique",
volume="2012",
number="online",
pages="825189-825189",
abstract="Objectives. To define different subgroups of suicide attempters according to age at onset of suicide attempts. Methods. Participants were 229 suicide attempters (147 females; 82 males) admitted to a general hospital in Madrid, Spain. We used admixture analysis to determine the best-fitting model for the age at onset of suicide attempts separated by sex. Results. The best fitted model for the age at onset of suicide attempts was a mixture of two gaussian distributions. Females showed an earlier age at onset of suicide attempts in both Gaussian distributions (mean ± S.D.) (26.98 ± 5.69 and 47.98 ± 14.13) than males (32.77 ± 8.11 and 61.31 ± 14.61). Early-onset female attempters were more likely to show borderline personality disorder than late-onset female attempters (OR = 11.11; 95% CI = 2.43-50.0). Conclusions. Age at onset of suicide attempts characterizes different subpopulations of suicide attempters.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2356-6140",
doi="10.1100/2012/825189",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/825189"
}