@article{ref1,
title="Who attempts suicide among medical students?",
journal="Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica",
year="2019",
author="Marcon, Grasiela and Monteiro, Gabriela Massaro Carneiro and Ballester, Pedro and Cassidy, Ryan Michael and Zimerman, Aline and Brunoni, Andre R. and Von Diemen, Lisia and Hauck, Simone and Passos, Ives Cavalcante",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To identify factors associated with a history of suicide attempt in medical students. <br><br>METHODS: A web-based survey was sent out to A SAMPLE OF MEDICAL STUDENTS. A multi-predictor Poisson regression was performed to identify factors associated with a history of suicide attempt. IN ADDITION, AN elastic net regularization WAS USED to build a risk calculator to identify students at risk for attempted suicide. <br><br>RESULTS: A total of 4,840 participants were included in the study. Prevalence of suicide ATTEMPTS in THE sample was 8.94%. Risk factors associated with past suicide attempt in the multi-predictor Poisson regression were: female gender (P<0.001); homosexuality (P<0.001); low income (P=0.026); bullying by university peers (P=0.006); childhood (P=0.001) or adult (P=0.001) trauma; family history of suicide (P=0.005); suicidal ideation within the last month (P<0.001); daily tobacco use (P=0.037); and being at severe risk for alcohol abuse (P=0.023). Our elastic net model performed well with an AUC of 0.83. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This study identifies A NUMBER OF KEY factors associated with a history of suicide attempts among medical students. Future longitudinal studies should ASSESS THE causal relationship between these factors and suicide attempts. Additionally, these results demonstrate that CURRENT AVAILABLE DATA ON SUICIDE ATTEMPTS AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS CAN BE USED TO DEVELOP an accurate risk algorithm.<br><br>© 2019 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-690X",
doi="10.1111/acps.13137",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acps.13137"
}