@article{ref1,
title="Childhood exposure to psychological trauma and the risk of suicide attempts: the modulating effect of psychiatric disorders",
journal="Psychiatry investigation",
year="2015",
author="Park, Subin and Hong, Jin Pyo and Jeon, Hong Jin and Seong, Sujeong and Cho, Maeng Je",
volume="12",
number="2",
pages="171-176",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: We examined whether childhood exposure to psychological trauma is associated with greater suicidality and whether specific psychiatric disorders modulate this association in a representative sample of Korean adults. <br><br>METHODS: The Korean version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview 2.1 was administered to 6,027 subjects aged 18-74 years. Subjects who experienced a traumatic event before the age of 18 years, the childhood-trauma-exposure group, were compared with controls without childhood trauma exposure. <br><br>RESULTS: Childhood exposure to psychological trauma was associated with lifetime suicidal ideation (OR=3.19, 95% CI=2.42-4.20), suicide plans (OR=4.15, 95% CI=2.68-6.43), and suicide attempts (OR=4.52, 95% CI=2.97-6.88). These associations weakened after further adjustment for any psychiatric disorders, but they were not eliminated. The risk of suicide attempts related to childhood trauma increased with the presence of a concurrent alcohol use, depressive, or eating disorder. <br><br>CONCLUSION: In terms of clinical implications, patients with these disorders who have a history of childhood trauma should be carefully assessed for their suicide risk and aggressively treated for psychiatric disorders.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1738-3684",
doi="10.4306/pi.2015.12.2.171",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.4306/pi.2015.12.2.171"
}