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Article Dans Une Revue Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior Année : 2019

Suicide Attempts

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Background: Very few studies have specifically addressed the role of the acute use of alcohol (AUA) in suicide attempts. Objective: Our study compared the suicide intent scores of self-poisoning patients with and without AUA in order to examine the role of alcohol in attempted suicides. Methods: We recruited 516 patients admitted to the emergency department for self-poisoning. We screened blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) to determine whether these were positive or negative in the two groups. We collected data about covariates such as psychiatric disorders and sociodemographic and suicide characteristics. We then compared suicide intent between the groups, adjusted according to the covariates. Results: The patients with AUA had lower scores for suicide intent, but this factor only reduced the self-reporting score, with the scores for objective circumstances and risk similar between the groups. There was a correlation between BACs and self-reported suicide intentionality, but this was not significant. Conclusion: Acute use of alcohol patients presented with lower suicide intent, as particularly explained by the self-report scores, but there were no differences between the groups in terms of risk and/or the objective circumstances. The role of alcohol in the self-reporting of suicide attempts must be addressed in future studies.
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hal-03464218 , version 1 (03-12-2021)

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Juliette Salles, Bernard Tiret, Adeline Gallini, Peggy Gandia, Christophe Arbus, et al.. Suicide Attempts: How Does the Acute Use of Alcohol Affect Suicide Intent?. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2019, 50 (1), pp.315-328. ⟨10.1111/sltb.12586⟩. ⟨hal-03464218⟩
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