TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Who attempts suicide among medical students?
JO  - Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica
A1  - Marcon, Grasiela
A1  - Monteiro, Gabriela Massaro Carneiro
A1  - Ballester, Pedro
A1  - Cassidy, Ryan Michael
A1  - Zimerman, Aline
A1  - Brunoni, Andre R.
A1  - Von Diemen, Lisia
A1  - Hauck, Simone
A1  - Passos, Ives Cavalcante
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0001-690X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acps.13137
ID  - ref1
ER  -