[Relationship between the suicidal attempts of adolescent girls and risk factors in the family].
The same factors in the family are described as risk factors for the suicidal behavior of adolescents by some authors and as risk factors for the development of depression by others. The goal of the study is to learn, if incomplete family, parental alcohol abuse, mentally ill member of the family, suicidal behavior in the family, sexual, physical or emotional abuse experienced in the family are directly related with the suicidal attempts of adolescent girls or relates to it just by causing depression. The results of the study suggest that 57.4% of the female adolescent suicide attempters and 9.3% of their non-suicidal peers in the comparison group were diagnosed clinical depression. Incomplete family, parental alcohol abuse, suicidal behavior in the family, sexual, physical or emotional abuse experienced in the family were statistically more frequent among the depressed and not depressed suicide attempters than among their non-suicidal peers. This allows the conclusion, that these risk factors in the family have a relationship with the suicide attempts of adolescent girls independently from clinical depression and require attention of the specialists, involved in the treatment and prevention of adolescents suicidal behavior.
Leskauskas
Darius
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KMU Psichodinamines psichoterapijos sektorius prie Psichiatrijos klinikos, Mickeviciaus 9, 3000 Kaunas. dleskauskas@yahoo.com
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002649:Child Abuse; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology