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Hindi Research Article, J Trauma Stress Disor Treat Vol: 2 Issue: 4
Suicide Attempts and Trauma-Related Subjective Distress in People with Severe Mental Illnesses
| Thomas O’Hare1*, Ce Shen 1 and Margaret Sherrer2 |
| 1Graduate School of Social Work, Boston College, USA |
| 2Department of Psychology and Human Services, Lyndon State College, USA |
| Corresponding author : Thomas O’Hare, MSW, Ph.D 388 Dolloff Pond Rd., Sutton, VT 05867, USA E-mail: oharet@bc.edu |
| Received: July 01, 2013 Accepted: September 18, 2013 Published: September 25, 2013 |
| Citation: O’Hare T, Shen C, Sherrer M (2013) Suicide Attempts and Trauma-Related Subjective Distress in People with Severe Mental Illnesses. J Trauma Stress Disor Treat 2:4. doi:10.4172/2324-8947.1000111 |
Abstract
Suicide Attempts and Trauma-Related Subjective Distress in People with Severe Mental Illnesses
We tested the relationship between subjective distress from common lifetime trauma and lifetime suicide attempts in people with severe mental illness (N = 371) including schizophrenia (109, 29.4%), schizoaffective (82, 22.1%), major depression (105, 28.3%), or bipolar I disorder (75, 20.2%). About half were women (51.2%), mean age was 47, and most were white (270, 72.8%), but included a significant proportion of minorities [African-American (41, 11.1%) and Hispanic (33, 8.9%)]. Measures included “lifetime suicide attempts” (dependent variable), trauma-related “subjective distress,”psychiatric symptoms and functioning (BASIS-24), lifetime self-injury, and gender.
