The relationship between child abuse, parental divorce, and lifetime mental disorders and suicidality in a nationally representative adult sample

Afifi, Tracie O.; Boman, Jonathan; Fleisher, William; Sareen, Jitender

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2008.12.009

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“…The present review also identified important articles that associated greater exposure to early life stress with an increase in suicidal ideation and suicide attempts (Afifi et al, 2008;Afifi, Boman, Fleisher, & Sareen, 2009). According to Brown, Cohen, Johnson, and Smailes (1999), victims of neglect and physical abuse were three-fold more prone to depression and suicide than those who were not abused.…”

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Analysis of the occurrence of early life stress in adult psychiatric patients: A systematic review.

Martins

Tofoli

Baes

et al. 2011

Psychology & Neuroscience

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The purpose of the paper was to conduct a systematic review of early life stress and its association with psychiatric disorders in adulthood. The occurrence of early stress has lasting negative consequences on the individual, with psychopathology onset one of the most important consequences. The degree of early life stress is associated with the severity of psychiatric disorders and disability in adulthood. Methodology: We conducted a search of two databases (PubMed and SciELO), limited to the time span 1990-2010, using the following keywords: child abuse, maltreatment, early stress, and psychiatric disorders. Thirty-one papers were selected for this review. Results: We found that the subtypes of early life stress such as emotional and physical neglect and sexual, emotional, and physical abuse have associations with several psychiatric disorders, but the Borderline Personality Disorder and Mood Disorders are more associated with the categories listed. Conclusions: Exposure to adversities in childhood and adolescence is predictive of psychiatric disorders in adulthood. More studies are needed to understand the mechanisms by which early life stress is a risk factor for future psychopathology.

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Analysis of the occurrence of early life stress in adult psychiatric patients: A systematic review.

Martins

Tofoli

Baes

et al. 2011

Psychology & Neuroscience

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“…The mechanism whereby sexual trauma leads to suicidality seems to lie in its magnification of the concurrent experience of other forms of childhood maltreatment [37]; however, the effect of sexual trauma has also been shown to be attenuated by controlling for affective symptoms [38] and parental psychopathology [40,41]. Moreover, with respect to personality disorders it has been shown that if sexual abuse was multivariately adjusted for other forms of abuse -in particular emotional abuse and neglect -its detrimental impact became negligible [42][43][44].…”

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Suicidality in the prospective Zurich study: prevalence, risk factors and gender

Angst

Hengartner

Rogers

et al. 2014

Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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Our prospective Zurich study found that suicidal ideation had occurred in 40.5 % and suicide attempts in 6.6 % of the population by age 50. Important gender differences were found in both suicidality and its risk factors. Suicide attempts were earlier and more frequent among women than among men: 70 versus 44 % reported their first suicide attempt before 20. For women, the relative risk of suicide attempts was 1.6, but the relative risk of suicidal ideation was about equal (1.1 for women). The main risk factors for suicidal ideation in women were low social support (OR 4.0) and frequent punishment in childhood (OR 3.7), and in men, a depressive (OR 6.5) and an anxious personality (OR 4.6). The main risk factors for suicide attempts in women were a broken home (OR 10.2) and sexual abuse/violence (OR 7.9) in childhood; in men, no multivariate analyses of suicide attempt were conducted because of insufficient statistical power. AbstractOur prospective Zurich Study found that suicidal ideation had occurred in 40.5%and suicide attempts in 6.6% of the population by age 50. Important gender differences were found in both suicidality and its risk factors. Suicide attempts were earlier and more frequent among women than among men: 70% vs 44% reported their first suicide attempt before 20.For women the relative risk of suicide attempts was 1.6, but the relative risk of suicidal ideation was about equal (1.1 for women). The main risk factors for suicidal ideation in women were low social support (OR=4.0) and frequent punishment in childhood (OR=3.7), and in men a depressive (OR=6.5) and an anxious personality (OR=4.6). The main risk factors for suicide attempts in women were a broken home (OR=10.2) and sexual abuse/violence (OR=7.9) in childhood; in men no multivariate analyses of suicide attempt were conducted because of insufficient statistical power.

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“…Several previous studies have used single items concerning suicidal ideation/suicide thoughts and suicide attempts such as the questions used in our survey (Sorenson and Rutter, 1991;Vilhjalmsson et al, 1998;Enns et al, 2006;Park et al, 2006;Afifi et al, 2009;FullerThomson and Dalton, 2011). The 51.7% participation rate is a limitation in the study.…”

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“…In one study, gender-specific analyses among showed that the association between parental divorce and suicidal ideation remained 4 statistically significant among men even after the inclusion of childhood stressors, adult socioeconomic factors, adult health behaviours, adult stressors, marital status and history of mood and/or anxiety disorders in multiple logistic regression models (Fuller-Thomson and Dalton, 2011). Other studies have failed to show statistically significant associations between parental separation/divorce and suicidal ideation/thoughts as well as between parental separation/divorce and suicide attempts (Afifi et al, 2009). Other studies entailing genderspecific analyses have revealed that the associations between parental separation/divorce and ever having experienced a suicide attempt were stronger among women than among men (Lizardi et al, 2009(Lizardi et al, , 2010, but one study showed only statistically significant results for men (Donald et al, 2006) and another study showed no statistically significant associations (Wan and Leung, 2010).…”

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Parental separation in childhood, social capital, and suicide thoughts and suicide attempts: A population-based study

Lindström

2015

Psychiatry Research

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Parental separation in childhood, social capital, and suicide thoughts and suicide attempts: A population-based study.Lindström, Martin; Rosvall, Maria General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal

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The relationship between child abuse, parental divorce, and lifetime mental disorders and suicidality in a nationally representative adult sample

Cited by 249 publications

References 33 publications

Analysis of the occurrence of early life stress in adult psychiatric patients: A systematic review.

Analysis of the occurrence of early life stress in adult psychiatric patients: A systematic review.

Suicidality in the prospective Zurich study: prevalence, risk factors and gender

Parental separation in childhood, social capital, and suicide thoughts and suicide attempts: A population-based study

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