title: Suicidal behaviors in children and adolescents with psychotic disorders.
abstract: Suicide is the leading cause of premature death in individuals with psychotic disorders. Risk for onset of suicidal behaviors tends to begin in adolescence, remaining high into young adulthood. The present study aims to evaluate the interplay of early onset psychosis and suicide risk by examining suicidal behaviors (ideation, planning, and attempts) in children and adolescents with psychotic disorders (PD) compared to typically developing peers (TD). Twenty five youths were recruited and were diagnostically evaluated for psychosis. We found that the PD children exhibited significantly higher levels of suicidal behaviors than TD children, even when parsed into individual at-risk behaviors.
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Electronic address: slincoln@fas.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Sarah Hope
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lincoln
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Electronic address: Emily.Norkett@childrens.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Norkett
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Electronic address: Kelsey.Graber@childrens.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Kelsey
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Graber
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Electronic address: Sahil.Tembulkar@childrens.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Sahil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tembulkar
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Electronic address: Nicholas.morelli@childrens.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Morelli
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Electronic address: Joseph.Gonzalez-Heydrich@childrens.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gonzalez-Heydrich
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Electronic address: Eugene.DAngelo@childrens.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Eugene
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: D'Angelo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D013406:Suicide, Attempted
keywords: Developmental psychopathology; Early-onset psychosis; Psychosis; Suicide