ERRATUM

doi:10.1542/peds.88.6.a32

ERRATUM

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.88.6.a32 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 88 (6) ◽

pp. A32-A32

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Adolescent Suicide ◽

Suicide Attempters ◽

At Risk Adolescents ◽

Adolescent Suicide Attempters ◽

Made In

In the article "Can Adolescent Suicide Attempters Be Distinguished From At-Risk Adolescents?" by Swedo et al (Pediatrics 1991;88:620-629), some revisions were not made in Table 2. The corrected Table 2 follows. [See table in the PDF file]

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Can Adolescent Suicide Attempters Be Distinguished From At-Risk Adolescents?

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.88.3.636 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 88 (3) ◽

pp. 636-637

Author(s):

S. KENNETH SCHONBERG

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Young People ◽

Adolescent Suicide ◽

Young Person ◽

Unsuccessful Attempt ◽

After Effects ◽

Chronic Morbidity ◽

Psychological Educational ◽

At Risk Adolescents ◽

Adolescent Suicide Attempters

Suicide is among the leading causes of death among adolescents and young adults. Beyond considerations of mortality is the morbidity of those young people who survive an attempt at suicide. At times this morbidity relates to anatomic or physiologic sequelae from the unsuccessful attempt; but far more often young people recover completely from the ingestion or trauma of their self-destructive episode, only to leave a residue of acute and chronic morbidity in the form of the psychological, educational, social, and financial after effects of hospitalization, absence from school, and disruption of the fabric of personal and family life. The detection of the young person at risk for even an unsuccessful attempt is therefore of some importance, and Dr Swedo and her co-authors show us in this issue of Pediatrics that such detection should be possible.

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Self-Report vs. Computerized Measures of Impulsivity as a Correlate of Suicidal Behavior

Crisis ◽

10.1027//0227-5910.22.1.27 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 27-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

Author(s):

Netta Horesh

Keyword(s):

Suicidal Behavior ◽

Attention Deficit Disorder ◽

Impulse Control ◽

Performance Test ◽

Adolescent Suicide ◽

Continuous Performance Test ◽

Self Report ◽

Suicide Attempters ◽

Computerized Measures ◽

Adolescent Suicide Attempters

Objectives: To compare the use of a self-report form of impulsivity versus a computerized test of impulsivity in the assessment of suicidal adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Methods: Sixty consecutive admissions to an adolescent in patient unit were examined. The severity of suicidal behavior was measured with the Childhood Suicide Potential Scale (CSPS), and impulse control was measured with the self report Plutchik Impulse Control Scale (ICS) and with the Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA), a continuous performance test (CPT). The TOVA is used to diagnose adolescents with attention deficit disorder. Results: There was a significant but low correlation between the two measures of impulsivity. Only the TOVA commission and omission errors differentiated between adolescent suicide attempters and nonattempters. Conclusions: Computerized measures of impulsivity may be a useful way to measure impulsivity in adolescent suicide attempters. Impulsivity appears to play a small role only in nondepressed suicidal adolescents, especially boys.

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