TY - JOUR PY - 2021// TI - Substance use, current criminal justice involvement, and lifetime suicidal thoughts and behaviors history: the moderating role of thwarted belonging JO - Suicide and life-threatening behavior A1 - Mitchell, Sean M. A1 - Brown, Sarah L. A1 - Görgülü, Tuğba A1 - Conner, Kenneth R. A1 - Swogger, Marc T. SP - 237 EP - 246 VL - 51 IS - 2 N2 - OBJECTIVE: Criminal justice involvement, substance use, and suicide pose significant public health concerns; however, the unique and synergistic effects of these experiences among high-risk individuals remain understudied. We hypothesized positive main effects for alcohol-related severity, drug-related severity, current criminal justice involvement, and thwarted belonging (TB) on suicide ideation history (SIH) and suicide attempt history (SAH) and that TB would moderate these associations.

METHOD: We report on cross-sectional analyses of self-report assessments completed by 824 adult residential substance use patients.

RESULTS: Multinomial logistic regression analyses indicated that as alcohol- and drug-related severity increases, the probability of SIH and SAH increases; however, TB was only associated with a higher SIH probability. Significant two-way interactions (current criminal justice involvement*TB; alcohol-related severity*TB) indicated that (1) those high in TB with current criminal justice involvement were more likely to report a SIH than those without current criminal justice involvement; and (2) those low in TB and alcohol-related severity had the lowest SAH probability, whereas those low in TB and high in alcohol-related severity had the highest SAH probability.

CONCLUSION: The unique and combined effects of interpersonal and contextual risk factors may improve suicide risk conceptualization and assessment, and allow for tailored treatments for this high-risk population.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 0363-0234 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12699 ID - ref1 ER -