Young women exposed to attempts and completed suicide scored higher on all YSR dimensions, with the exception of social problems, compared to those not exposed (Table 3).
Young men exposed to suicide had significantly higher scores for internalizing syndrome compared to those unexposed (p = 0.001), while young women exposed to suicide scored significantly higher on both internalizing (p = 0.001) and externalizing syndromes (p = 0.012).
Suicide attempters who eventually committed suicide had scored higher on Beck's Suicidal Intention Scale (Table 1).
Participants having higher baseline suicide scores were more likely to continue experiencing suicidal ideation at postintervention, while those with greater improvements in depression symptoms were less likely to experience suicide ideation at postintervention.
Suicidal intent was measured both with the specific section of the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), a DSM-IV-TR based, short, structured interview [29], and with the suicide score scale (SSS).
Patients were administered the Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego-autoquestionnaire version (TEMPS-A), the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D), the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ), the Suicide Score Scale (SSS), and the Quality of Life Index (QL-Index).
Regarding CDSS suicide score, G1 had significantly higher score at follow-up than all the other three subgroups.
Regarding CDSS suicide score at baseline, G1 had significantly higher score than both G2 and G4, and G3 had significantly higher suicidality score than G2.
The group with persistent depression (G1) had most global and psychotic symptoms, as well as the highest suicide scores at both baseline and follow-up.
A similar procedure as for comparing total depression score was performed for total suicide scores and the Beta value was significant for group (Beta = 0.3, p < 0.001, but not for age (Beta = -0.04, p < 0.4, or gender Beta = 0.03, p < 0.5).
Investigating the affective temperament profiles of 150 nonviolent suicide attempters (121 of whom had a current major depressive episode) and 717 healthy controls, recent findings showed that the suicide attempters scored significantly higher on the four of the five affective temperaments (depressive, cyclothymic, irritable and anxious) [28].
