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Mania, Hypomania, and Suicidality: Findings from a Prospective Community Study

We examined prospectively whether mania and hypomania are associated with an elevated risk for suicidality in a community sample of adolescents and young adults. Baseline and four-year follow-up data were used from the Early-Developmental- Stages-of-Psychopathology (EDSP) Study, a prospective longitudinal study of adolescents and young adults in Munich. Suicidal tendencies (ideation/attempts), mania, and hypomania were assessed using the standardized Munich-Composite-International- Diagnostic-Interview. At baseline, mania/hypomania was associated to a different degree with suicidality (Odds ratios [OR] range from 1.9 to 13.7). In the prospective analyses, the risk for subsequent incident suicidal ideation was increased in the presence of prior mania (38.0% vs. 14.1%; OR = 4:4; 95% CI = 1.4–13.5). No associations could be found between prior mania/hypo-mania and incident suicide attempts. The prospective analyses revealed a remarkable relationship between preexisting mania and increased risk for subsequent suicidal ideation.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:27054
Date January 2005
CreatorsBronisch, Thomas, Schwender, Lena, Höfler, Michael, Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich, Lieb, Roselind
PublisherTechnische Universität Dresden
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text
SourceArchives of Suicide Research, Bd. 9 (2005), Nr. 3, S. 267-278, ISSN: 1381-1118
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relation10.1080/13811110590929460

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