title: Suicidal children grow up: psychiatric treatment during follow-up period.
abstract: This study compares the treatment course during a 6- to 8-year follow-up period of 53 suicidal preadolescent and young adolescent psychiatric inpatients with those of 16 nonsuicidal psychiatric inpatients and 64 nonpatients selected from a community. The three groups of subjects were matched on demographic characteristics. All 69 patients and 10 (15.6%) nonpatients received treatment during follow-up. Treatment course during follow-up for suicidal patients was significantly longer, earlier, and more intensive than for the nonpatient controls. Fifty-five percent of 20 subjects who attempted suicide during follow-up were in treatment at the time of the suicide attempt.
authors.affiliation: Cornell University Medical College, New York.
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Pfeffer
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Peskin
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Siefker
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs