Suicidal Ideation in Adolescents: Understanding Results from Screening with the PHQ-9M and the PSC-17P.
Suicidal Ideation in Adolescents: Understanding Results from Screening with the PHQ-9M and the PSC-17P.
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DOI:
10.1097/dbp.0000000000001063
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发表时间:
2022-08-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Murphy, J. Michael
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作者:
Holcomb, Juliana M.;Dutta, Anamika;Bergmann, Paul;Riobueno-Naylor, Alexa;Haile, Haregnesh;Benheim, Talia S.;Sturner, Raymond;Howard, Barbara;Jellinek, Michael;Murphy, J. Michael
To help pediatricians understand and respond to suicidal ideation (SI) in adolescents based on data from two widely used screening measures that assessed SI and other psychosocial vulnerabilities in a large, national sample. Adolescents (ages 11-17) completed the PHQ-9 Modified for Teens (PHQ-9M) using the CHADIS software prior to their well child visits. Question 9 asks about past two-week SI. Their parents filled out the Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC-17P), which screens for a broad range of psychosocial problems. Chi-square analyses and one-way ANOVAs assessed the relationship between SI and psychosocial problems. Among 5,411 adolescents, 266 (4.9%) reported SI at least several days in the past two weeks. Among adolescents with SI, 187 (70.3%) reported moderate to very severe depression on the PHQ-9M (≥10), 68.1% were at-risk on at least one PSC-17P problem subscale, 59.7% on the PSC-17P internalizing scale, 42.9% on PSC-17P overall, 20.6% on PSC-17P externalizing, and 18.5% on PSC-17P attention. Within the subsample endorsing SI nearly all days, 35.7% had a former suicide attempt. The PHQ-9M identifies a clinically heterogeneous subset of approximately 5% of adolescents who report occasional to frequent SI. The PSC-17P corroborates their high degree of overall risk and offers additional information that can help pediatricians assess clinical severity and range of psychosocial problems. Given our limited knowledge of how to predict and prevent an individual adolescent’s suicide, the focus of screening should be to identify and help the subset of patients with chronic psychosocial vulnerability of any type.