title: Suicidal thoughts and behaviors in depressed hospitalized preschoolers.
abstract: The authors explored the depressive symptomatology in 9 hospitalized preschool children with suicidal thoughts and behaviors and compared them with 16 suicidal and 16 behavior-disordered outpatient preschoolers. Results indicate that suicidal preschool-age inpatients show significantly more morbid ideas, depressed mood, weepiness, and parental psychopathology than the suicidal and behavior-disordered preschool outpatients. Two of the children did not suppress cortisol post-dexamethasone.
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D004924:Escape Reaction; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D010045:Outpatients / Q000523:psychology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011678:Punishment; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*