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Risk and protective factors for suicide attempt and self-harm in individuals with a history of psychiatric hospitalization
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| Title: | Risk and protective factors for suicide attempt and self-harm in individuals with a history of psychiatric hospitalization |
| Authors: | Nabors, Erik Stephen |
| Keywords: | Psychology
Suicide--Risk factors
Suicidal behavior--Risk factors |
| Issue Date: | 2-Sep-2004 |
| Abstract: | To date, research on risk for self-harming behavior has been of
limited success. This has led to difficulty in predicting self-harm, and
developing effective intervention programs. The existing prediction
literature has focused on static risk factors, failed to adequately define
or measure many important constructs, and has not yet developed prediction
schemes of adequate accuracy. The current intervention literature is both
small and methodologically poor. This paper presents results from a study
examining risk for self-harm in individuals with a history of psychiatric
hospitalization. The data is taken from the MacArthur Risk Assessment
study, and corrects for the methodological problems that have marked the
prediction literature. Logistic regressions found several risk and
protective factors for both suicidal and non-suicidal acts of self harm
respectively. Classification tree analyses correctly classified a high
percentage of subjects, and provided descriptions of those at low, moderate
and high risk for both suicidal and non-suicidal acts of self-harm.
Implications for conceptualization, study and professional reaction to acts
of self-harm are discussed. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1860/335 |
| Appears in Collections: | Drexel Theses and Dissertations
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