TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Age of first suicide attempt in men and women: an admixture analysis
JO  - ScientificWorldJournal
A1  - Blasco-Fontecilla, Hilario
A1  - Alegria, Analucía A.
A1  - Delgado-Gomez, David
A1  - Legido-Gil, Teresa
A1  - Saiz-Ruiz, Jeronimo
A1  - Oquendo, Maria A.
A1  - Baca-Garcia, Enrique
SP  - 825189
EP  - 825189
VL  - 2012
IS  - online
N2  - Objectives. To define different subgroups of suicide attempters according to age at onset of suicide attempts. Methods. Participants were 229 suicide attempters (147 females; 82 males) admitted to a general hospital in Madrid, Spain. We used admixture analysis to determine the best-fitting model for the age at onset of suicide attempts separated by sex. Results. The best fitted model for the age at onset of suicide attempts was a mixture of two gaussian distributions. Females showed an earlier age at onset of suicide attempts in both Gaussian distributions (mean ± S.D.) (26.98 ± 5.69 and 47.98 ± 14.13) than males (32.77 ± 8.11 and 61.31 ± 14.61). Early-onset female attempters were more likely to show borderline personality disorder than late-onset female attempters (OR = 11.11; 95% CI = 2.43-50.0). Conclusions. Age at onset of suicide attempts characterizes different subpopulations of suicide attempters.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2356-6140
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/825189
ID  - ref1
ER  -