PMID: 15232240Jul 3, 2004Paper

Risk factors for nonfatal suicide behaviors among inner-city adolescents

Pediatric Emergency Care
Amy SussBinita Shah

Abstract

To determine whether a delineation of suicide attempt severity via toxic ingestion distinguishes adolescents in terms of needs for medical and psychosocial support. Cross-sectional study performed between 1995 through 1997 in which 92 adolescents, mean age 15.6 years, presented to an urban pediatric emergency department for a nonfatal suicide attempt by ingestion. As defined by the authors, these adolescents were divided into 2 groups. The higher risk or more severe attempt group (n = 54) was defined as those that either ingested a toxic amount of a drug or had a toxic blood level or were admitted to the intensive care unit secondary to abnormal vital signs. The lower risk or less severe attempt group (n = 38) included those that did not meet these criteria. A 50-item confidential questionnaire was administered in the emergency room, which included information on demographic, clinical/laboratory, psychosocial characteristics and review of all psychiatric consultation(s). In accord with our definition, the higher risk or more severe attempt group was more likely than the lower risk or less severe attempt group to have elevated heart rates at intake (96.4 +/- 18.4 vs. 87.0 +/- 18.0, P = 0.023), and to have ingested a drug less th...Continue Reading

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