Suicide prevention: Using the number of health complaints as an indirect alternative for screening suicidal adolescents

Heinz, Andreas; Catunda, Carolina; Duin, Claire van; Willems, Helmut

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2019.08.025

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“…A cohort study from Finland has shown that psychosomatic symptoms in adolescents can be early warning signals of anxiety disorders and depression in adulthood [43]. Accordingly, it has also been shown that the number of subjective health complaints is highly correlated with suicidal ideation and behavior [44]. In 2014, the HBSC countries differed widely in the prevalence of subjective health complaints in adolescents.…”

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Patterns of Health-Related Gender Inequalities—A Cluster Analysis of 45 Countries

Heinz

Catunda

Duin

et al. 2020

Journal of Adolescent Health

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The paper explores gender inequalities between 45 countries across 10 health indicators among adolescents and whether those differences in health correlate with gender inequality in general. Methods: Data from 71,942 students aged 15 years from 45 countries who participated in the 2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey were analyzed. For this purpose, 10 indicators were selected, representing a broad spectrum of health outcomes. The gender differences in the countries were first presented using odds ratios. Countries with similar risk profiles were grouped together using cluster analyses. For each of the 10 indicators, the correlation with the Gender Inequality Index was examined. Results: The cluster analysis reveals systematic gender inequalities, as the countries can be divided into seven distinct groups with similar gender inequality patterns. For eight of the 10 health indicators, there is a negative correlation with the Gender Inequality Index: the greater the gender equality in a country, the higher the odds that girls feel fat, have low support from families, have low life satisfaction, have multiple health complaints, smoke, drink alcohol, feel school pressure, and are overweight compared with boys. Four indicators show a divergence: the higher the gender equality in a country in general, the larger the differences between boys and girls regarding life satisfaction, school pressure, multiple health complaints, and feeling fat. Conclusions: Countries that are geographically and historically linked are similar in terms of the health risks for boys and girls. The results challenge the assumption that greater gender equality is always associated with greater health equality.

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Patterns of Health-Related Gender Inequalities—A Cluster Analysis of 45 Countries

Heinz

Catunda

Duin

et al. 2020

Journal of Adolescent Health

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“…Furthermore, backache was not included in our scale as we had no information on it. Since backache weekly or more is quite prevalent, ranging from 7.8 to 29% 14 , 39 , 40 , we have likely underestimated the prevalence of MHC. Some studies show that the item on backache has appropriate psychometric properties, e.g.…”

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“…that it loads most strongly on the somatic sub-scale 6 , 16 . Others have found that responses to backache are not invariant 6 , 14 , 15 and that it is the item with the poorest predictive ability 39 . One can argue that the loss of this item in particular may not result in a large loss of information, and thus will not result in a large decrease in precision.…”

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Multiple health complaints in preadolescence and hospital contacts during adolescence: a prospective cohort study

Bernstorff

Rask

Rytter

et al. 2022

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Multiple health complaints (MHC) is increasing among preadolescents in many countries, but their prognostic effect for individual thriving or societal resource use is scarcely studied. This makes interpreting the significance of this increase challenging. We contribute by examining whether MHC in preadolescence predicts hospital contacts in adolescence by doing a nation-wide population-based cohort-study following preadolescents from the Danish National Birth-Cohort from 2010 to 2018. 96,382 children were invited at age 11. Responses to a modified version of the Health Behaviour in School Children Symptom Checklist (headache, dizziness, stomachache, irritability, feeling nervous, difficulty in getting to sleep and feeling low) was dichotomized into MHC (≥ 2 concurrent symptoms, each with a frequency of at least weekly, yes/no). Hospital contacts were derived from Danish registers from the date of answering the questionnaire to December 31st 2018. Negative binomial regression estimated incidence rate ratios (IRRs) comparing children with MHC to children without. Analyses were further broken down by hospital sector (psychiatric/somatic) and contact type (in-patient/out-patient/emergency room). 47,365 (49.1%) responded. Mean age was 11.2 years, 52% girls. 10.3% of responders reported MHC. For hospital contacts, the unadjusted IRR was 1.74 [95% CI 1.65, 1.83]. Results were robust to adjustment for sociodemographic variables and somatic/psychiatric morbidity diagnosed before baseline, IRR 1.62 [95% CI 1.54–1.71]. In conclusion, MHC in preadolescents are prognostic of hospital contacts. This shows that we cannot ignore MHC, and to prevent potentially unhelpful healthcare use, we must act. Future research should focus on the underlying causes of MHC to understand which changes will be most helpful and thus how to act.

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“…Therefore, healthcare providers and caregivers are less likely to ask questions related to suicide and self-harm in fear of exposing adolescents to thoughts of suicide. "On the contrary, a meta-analysis concluded that exposure to suicide-related content in a study is associated with a lower likelihood of attempting suicide after participation in the study, as well as a decrease in suicidal ideation" [8]. Presenting information about suicide and self-harm in the school setting with adolescents has improved outcomes for lowering statistics for suicide and selfharm among this population.…”

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Suicide Prevention: Reducing Self-Harm in Adolescents using the Smart Phone App “Calm Harm”

Hubbard¹

2022

J Medi Clin Nurs

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Physical assessment skills (PAS) are a fundamental skill in caring for patients. Nurses must be able to recognize a change in a patient’s condition and timely intervene to prevent negative patient outcomes. Nursing students are taught numerous skills which they often do not get an opportunity to practice while in the clinical setting. Registered nurses indicate new graduate nurses find it difficult to transition from learning physical assessment in nursing school, to deciding what and how to assess patients when they are in the clinical setting.

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Suicide prevention: Using the number of health complaints as an indirect alternative for screening suicidal adolescents

Cited by 22 publications

References 30 publications

Patterns of Health-Related Gender Inequalities—A Cluster Analysis of 45 Countries

Patterns of Health-Related Gender Inequalities—A Cluster Analysis of 45 Countries

Multiple health complaints in preadolescence and hospital contacts during adolescence: a prospective cohort study

Suicide Prevention: Reducing Self-Harm in Adolescents using the Smart Phone App “Calm Harm”

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