Coping strategies used by suicide attempters and comparison groups
(2013) In Open Journal of Psychiatry 3. p.256-263- Abstract
- A variety of factors have been identified as being risk factors for suicidal behaviour. One of them is the handling of stressful events. The aim of the present study was to investigate the coping-strategies used by suicide attempters and comparison groups. 37 pa- tients who had recently made a suicide attempt, 38 suicide attempters at follow up, 20 psychiatric follow up controls, and 19 healthy controls filled in the COPE. We found that suicide attempters at long term follow up and healthy controls used more adaptive problem solving strategies than patients who had re- cently made a suicide attempt, or psychiatric controls at follow up, who used more maladaptive ... (More)
- A variety of factors have been identified as being risk factors for suicidal behaviour. One of them is the handling of stressful events. The aim of the present study was to investigate the coping-strategies used by suicide attempters and comparison groups. 37 pa- tients who had recently made a suicide attempt, 38 suicide attempters at follow up, 20 psychiatric follow up controls, and 19 healthy controls filled in the COPE. We found that suicide attempters at long term follow up and healthy controls used more adaptive problem solving strategies than patients who had re- cently made a suicide attempt, or psychiatric controls at follow up, who used more maladaptive coping strategies. Our findings suggest that suicide attempt- ers in a twelve year follow up are able to use coping strategies similarly to healthy controls by e.g. ap- proaching the stressor actively. Further examinations of the impact of long term professional care and treatment of suicide attempters on their coping strategies are necessary. (Less)
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- Sunnqvist, Charlotta LU ; Träskman Bendz, Lil LU and Westrin, Åsa LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
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- Open Journal of Psychiatry
- volume
- 3
- pages
- 256 - 263
- publisher
- Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP)
- ISSN
- 2161-7325
- DOI
- 10.4236/ojpsych.2013.32024
- project
- Individanpassad behandling av patienter med depression, med särskilt fokus på suicidrisk.
- language
- English
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- yes
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