title: Body dissatisfaction as a predictor of self-reported suicide attempts in adolescents: a Spanish community prospective study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine whether body dissatisfaction at the age of 13 years predicted the risk for reported suicide attempts two years later, controlling the effects of pre-existing suicide ideation and attempts as well as numerous variables.
  
  
  METHODS
  A community-longitudinal study, with 1766 (887 female and 878 male) pupils aged 13 years from all the schools of a designated area, was performed. The Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ), The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), and other self-reported questionnaires were administered. Suicidal thinking and suicide attempts were also evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Controlling the effect of gender and other possible predictive variables, previous suicidal thinking (odds ratio [OR] = 3.88, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.57-9.56) and scores on the BSQ (OR = 1.02, 95% CI 1.01-1.03) predicted reported suicide attempts in the next two years.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Programs improving one's own body-image esteem in adolescence might help to prevent not only eating disorders but other potentially dangerous consequences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Ciudad Real Hospital, Ciudad Real, Spain.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Cano
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Beato-Fernández
authors.forename: Antonia Belmonte
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Llario
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001828:Body Image; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000208:ethnology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*