Az öngyilkossági kísérletek klinikai és pszichoszociális vonatkozásai, különös tekintettel az affektív temperamentumra, a gyermekkori abúzusokra és a nemi különbségekre

• Main Author: Rihmer, Annamaria
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 01-01-2009
• Subjects: Mental health
• ISBN: 126729227X; 9781267292278

Summary In our present study we have investigated the psychiatric and psychosocial characteristics of 150 nonviolent suicide attempters (106 females and 44 males) admitted at the Department of Toxycology at the Erzsébet Hospital, Capital Local Goverment in 2003. A particular attention have been paid to affective temperament-types, childhood physical and sexual abuse and gender differences. Our protocol involved collecting demographic data, the Hungarian verison of the MINI Neuropsychiatric Interview the TEMPS-A temperament scale with 110 items the shortened verison of the Bernstein Childhood Psychical and Sexual Abuse Scale and the Gotland Male Depression Scale. Our findings confirm previous Hungarian and international data concerning the connection of suicidal behaviour and psychiatric disorders, undesirable psychosocial circumstances and negative life events (1, 2). Moreover, our study provides new results regarding the strong association of the affective temperament types, the male type of depression, the seriously traumatic early life events and furthermore to their predisposing role in connection with suicidal behaviour. While the attempters scored significantly higher on the depressive, cyclothymic, irritable and anxious subscales (p<0.01) and and depressive, cyclothymic and irritable temperaments were significantly more frequent among nonviolent suicide attempters (p<0.01), than in controls, hyperthymic temperament seems to be have a protective role (3). Suicide attempters, experiencing physical and/or sexual abuse in their childhood showed significantly higher total scores (p<0.05) on cyclothymic and irritable temperament subscales. The Gotland Male Depressive syndrome was equally very common and equally serious both in males and females who made nonviolent suicide attempt (4). However, regardless of gender, it was significantly more severe (p<0.01) among those who were victims of both physical and sexual childhood abuse.