Adverse Childhood Experiences, Depression, Exposure to Suicide, Self-injury, Defeat, and Entrapment among Suicide Attempters and Non-suicidal People

Background: Suicide is an important concern with regard to mental health and needs more attention in Iran. Objectives: This study aimed to compare depression, exposure to suicide, self-injury, defeat, and entrapment, and adverse childhood experiences in suicide attempters and normal people. Materials and Methods: The current research method was descriptive in the form of ex post facto research. The research community included two groups of (1) suicide attempters, and (2) normal students. Research measures included the Patient Health Questionnaire-2, exposure to suicidal behavior, non-suicidal self-injury, short defeat and entrapment scale, adverse childhood experiences questionnaire, and future self-injury. The data were analyzed using t-test. Results: The results showed a significant difference between groups on the mean values of depression (2.27 for the non-suicidal group vs. 3.87 for the suicidal group), adverse childhood experiences (5.82 vs. 0.95), exposure to the attempted suicide (0.28 vs. 0.50), self-injury behavior (0.36 vs. 2.13), and future self-injury likelihood (0.56 vs. 2.13). The most significant differences belonged to the defeat and entrapment variable and adverse childhood experiences (P < 0.01). Conclusions: Thus, defeat and depression play an important role in predicting suicide, so we should intervene in these two states of mind.

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The role of adverse childhood experiences as determinants of non-suicidal self-injury among children and adolescents referred to community and inpatient mental health settings

Child Abuse & Neglect ◽

10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.04.011 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 69 ◽

pp. 163-176 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Philip Baiden ◽

Shannon L. Stewart ◽

Barbara Fallon

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Self Injury ◽

Inpatient Mental Health ◽

Adverse Childhood ◽

Mental Health Settings

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Correlation of adverse childhood experiences with psychiatric disorders and aggressiveness in adulthood

Vojnosanitetski pregled ◽

10.2298/vsp1008653s ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 67 (8) ◽

pp. 653-658 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ljiljana Samardzic ◽

Gordana Nikolic ◽

Grozdanko Grbesa ◽

Maja Simonovic ◽

Tatjana Milenkovic

Keyword(s):

Psychiatric Disorders ◽

Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽

Psychotic Disorders ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Statistical Significance ◽

Healthy Individuals ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Positive Correlation ◽

Adverse Childhood ◽

Significant Difference

Background/Aim. Consequences of individual adverse childhood experiences for adult mental health have been precisely studied during past decades. The focus of past research was mainly on childhood maltreatment and neglect. The aim of this paper was to determine association between multiple adverse childhood experiences and psychiatric disorders, as well as their correlation to the degree and type of aggressiveness in adult psychiatric patients. Methods. One hundred and thirteen psychiatric outpatients were divided into three diagnostic groups: psychotics, non-psychotics and alcoholics and compared with fourty healthy individuals. Adverse childhood experiences data were gathered retrospectively, using the Adverse childhood experiences questionnaire and explanatory interview. Aggressiveness was assessed using Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire. The Student's t test, ANOVA and correlational analysis were used for evaluation of statistical significance of differences among the groups. A value p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results. Our results showed that the mean number of adverse childhood experiences in each group of psychiatric patients, as well as in the whole group of patients, was statistically significantly higher than in the group of healthy individuals (p < 0.001); there was a statistically significant difference in score of physical aggressiveness between the patients exposed to adverse childhood experiences and those who were not exposed to them (p < 0.05); scores of physical aggressiveness were in positive correlation with the number of adverse childhood experiences (p < 0.05). The highest mean score of adverse childhood experiences was evidenced in the group of patients with psychotic disorders. Conclusion. Multiple adverse childhood experiences are significantly associated with psychotic disorders, nonpsychotic disorders and alcohol dependence in adulthood and their presence is important morbidity risk factor for psychiatric disorders. They are in positive correlation with physical aggressiveness of the patients from these diagnostic groups.

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The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Therapy Outcome in Adolescents Engaging in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

Frontiers in Psychiatry ◽

10.3389/fpsyt.2020.505661 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

Author(s):

Alexandra Edinger ◽

Gloria Fischer-Waldschmidt ◽

Peter Parzer ◽

Romuald Brunner ◽

Franz Resch ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽

Therapy Outcome ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Self Injury ◽

Adverse Childhood ◽

The Impact ◽

Nonsuicidal Self Injury

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Research on Relationships between Sexual Identity, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury among Rural High School Students in Less Developed Areas of China

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph16173158 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (17) ◽

pp. 3158 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Li ◽

Zheng ◽

Tucker ◽

Xu ◽

Wen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Sexual Identity ◽

Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽

Jiangxi Province ◽

School Students ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Self Injury ◽

Rural High School ◽

Adverse Childhood

Purpose: The objective of this study was to examine the influence of sexual identity and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) among rural high school students in less developed areas of China. Methods: Behavior risk factors data collected from 1810 students from a high school in Jiangxi province, China. Five measures of childhood abuse and household dysfunction were summarized, and ACE was divided into 0, 1, 2, 3–5 ACEs. Logistic regression analysis was used to explore the influence of sexual identity, adverse childhood experiences, and their interaction with non-suicidal self-injury. Results: Compared with heterosexual students, high school students who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) have a higher tendency of non-suicidal self-injury (AOR = 3.250, 95% CI = 1.69–6.28, p < 0.01). There was also a graded relationship between cumulative ACEs exposure and non-suicidal self-injury behaviors (AOR = 1.627, 95% CI = 1.02–2.60, p < 0.05). Odds for NSSI are higher among students with both experienced ACEs and identified as LGB (AOR = 2.821, 95% CI = 1.51–5.29, p < 0.05). Conclusions: Non-suicidal self-injury is associated with ACEs exposure and with those who identify as LGB, and the NSSI odds are greater when students identify as LGB and have experienced ACEs. More interventions to reduce non-suicidal self-injury should focus on LGB and ACEs and more attention needs to be paid to those who identify as LGB and have been exposed to ACEs.

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