@article{ref1,
title="Prevalence and co-morbidity in common mental disorders and association with suicidal ideation in adult population",
journal="Epidemiology and health",
year="2017",
author="Veisani, Yousef and Mohamadian, Fathola and Delpisheh, Ali",
volume="39",
number="",
pages="e2017031-e2017031",
abstract="PURPOSE: Already there are little information on the association between co-morbidities in mental disorders and suicide ideation in developing countries. Current study examines the relationship between co-morbidities in mental disorders and suicide ideation in adult population. <br><br>METHODS: The cross sectional study was conducted using cluster random sampling method in three steps. Data collecting was based on household assets survey and a self-administered 28-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) as first step to screening and Persian version of the DSM-IVTR was applied to second stage to determine prevalence of mental disorders. Bivariate and multivariate analysis used to investigate association between mental disorders and suicidal ideation. <br><br>RESULTS: In all 763 participants, 199 (26.1 %) had a 1 or more mental disorder. <br><br>RESULTS showed that 42 (71.4%) subjects with co-morbidity met had history of suicide ideation, while 59 (7.7%) of all participants had a history of past suicide ideations. We found that major depressive disorder MDD and compulsive disorder were the most predictive associations with suicide ideation in both genders. Co-morbidity disorders ORs for exactly three disorders was (OR= 2.70, CI95%; 1.40-14.12) in males and (OR= 3.06, CI95%; 1.25-15.22) in females for predicting of suicide ideation. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Consistent with pervious data, our results confirmed that mental disorders and co-morbidity in mental disorders was the important predictor for suicide ideation. Our finding is very usefulness for applied interventions programs to reduce suicide in regions with high prevalence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2092-7193",
doi="10.4178/epih.e2017031",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2017031"
}