Predictors of suicidal ideation among college students: A prospective cohort study |
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| Authors: | Boyoung Nam Matthew R Hilimire Danielle Jahn Meshan Lehmann |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;2. Department of Psychology, The College of William &3. Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA;4. Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;5. VA Capitol Health Care Network (VISN 5) Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
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ABSTRACTThis prospective cohort study investigated longitudinal predictors of suicidal ideation among college students. A non-clinical cohort of college students (N = 171) completed baseline and 3-month follow-up surveys. Depressive symptoms, worst-point suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt history significantly predicted follow-up suicidal ideation severity after adjusting covariates. Similarly, depressive symptoms and worst-point suicidal ideation (but not attempt history) were significant predictors of follow-up suicidal ideation intensity in an adjusted model. The results suggest that current depressive symptoms and lifetime worst-point suicidal ideation are independently valuable constructs that may provide relatively short-term predictive information when screening for suicidal ideation among college students. |
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| Keywords: | Suicidal ideation epidemiology depression suicide young adults |
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