@article{ref1,
title="Perceived Reasons for Living at Index Hospitalization and Future Suicide Attempt",
journal="Journal of nervous and mental disease",
year="2007",
author="Lizardi, Dana and Currier, Dianne and Galfalvy, Hanga and Sher, Leo and Burke, Ainsley and Mann, J. and Oquendo, Maria",
volume="195",
number="5",
pages="451-455",
abstract="It is unclear why certain individuals choose not to engage in suicidal behavior. Although important, protective factors against suicidal behavior have seldom been studied. The Reasons for Living Inventory is a measure of putative protective factors that is inversely related to a history of suicide attempts, but its predictive utility remains relatively untested. This study sought to determine whether the Reasons for Living Inventory predicts future suicide attempts over a 2-year period. Depressed inpatients were assessed for reasons for living and were followed for 2 years. Follow-up interviews took place at 3 months, 1 year, and 2 years after discharge from the index hospitalization. Survival analysis indicates a high score on the Reasons for Living Inventory predicted fewer future suicide attempts within a 2-year period in women but not in men. Perceived reasons for living serve as protective factors against suicide attempt in women and not in men.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3018",
doi="10.1097/NMD.0b013e3180522661",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0b013e3180522661"
}