title: Childhood trauma, traumatic brain injury, and mental health disorders associated with suicidal ideation and suicide-related behavior in a community corrections sample.
abstract: Suicidal ideation and suicide-related behavior among community-supervised offenders are significant public health problems. In a sample of 418 subjects served by the community corrections office of Iowa's Sixth Judicial District, 56 percent of subjects denied suicidal ideation and suicide-related behavior (control group), 17 percent reported suicidal ideation without suicide-related behavior (ideator group), and 27 percent reported engaging in suicide-related behavior (actor group). A model comprising five independent variables differentiated the ideator and actor groups from the control group: Caucasian race, depressive symptom sum, brain injury, childhood trauma, and avoidant personality. These five factors, combined with the additional variables of PCL:SV Factor 2 (Psychopathy Checklist-Screening Version) score and lifetime anxiety disorder, differentiated the actor group from the control group.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, 355 West 16th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-7176, USA. tdgunter@iupui.edu
authors.forename: Tracy D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Gunter
authors.forename: John T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Chibnall
authors.forename: Sandra K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Antoniak
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Philibert
authors.forename: Donald W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Black
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D015897:Comorbidity; D003688:Deinstitutionalization / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007484:Iowa; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011329:Prisoners / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012307:Risk Factors; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult