@article{ref1,
title="What are the characteristics of adolescent hospitalized suicide attempters?",
journal="European child and adolescent psychiatry",
year="2004",
author="Pagès, F. and Arvers, Philippe and Hassler, Christine and Choquet, Marie",
volume="13",
number="3",
pages="151-158",
abstract="AIM: To study the specificity of hospitalized adolescent suicide attempters. METHOD: Among a national sample of students (n = 11,718, mean age = 16.6 years) studied in 1999, 9.2% (n = 1078) made at least one suicide attempt during their life (SA); 21.9% (n = 234) of them were hospitalized (HSA). We identified the risk factors (family, school, behavioral and psychological) of SA and HSA by comparing (by gender) a) suicide attempters to non-suicide attempters and b) hospitalized suicide attempters to non-hospitalized suicide attempters. RESULTS: Both for girls and boys, the risk factors for SA varied. However, certain risk factors, particularly depressive mood, low self-esteem and poor parent-child relationships, were not associated with hospitalization. Hospitalized suicide attempters had more personal and social problems. But there is an important difference according to gender: in boys, hospitalization is related to physical fighting (OR = 2.2) and offences (OR = 3.4), in girls to running away (OR = 1.7), consumption of illegal drugs other than cannabis (OR = 2.0), having a living standard outside average (OR = 2.0) and going to a private school (OR = 1.7). CONCLUSION: Suicide attempters with problem behavior are more at risk of being hospitalized than others. However, the difference between hospitalized and non-hospitalized subjects was smaller than expected.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1018-8827",
doi="10.1007/s00787-004-0375-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-004-0375-1"
}