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Suicidal ideation and sex differences in relation to 18 major psychiatric disorders in college and university students: anonymous web-based assessment.

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Tupler, LA; Hong, JY; Gibori, R; Blitchington, TF; Krishnan, KRR
Published in: J Nerv Ment Dis
April 2015

College/university students are at high risk for psychiatric disorder and suicide secondary to age, campus stressors, and social pressures. We therefore report frequencies of 18 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision disorders and suicidal ideation (SI) acquired anonymously from a Web site receiving 113,181 visits from more than 1,500 predominantly US colleges/universities. Depression was foremost, followed by social phobia and eating disorders. Substance-related disorders were less frequent than expected. SI occurred in 47.1% of students, with women evidencing somewhat stronger findings than men. SI was more associated with substance, bipolar, and panic disorders than depression. Self-reported emotional volatility exceeded thoughts of self-harm for all disorders. The results support two subtypes of suicide risk: dysphoric premeditators and those primarily angry and/or impulsive. Clinicians and researchers should therefore consider suicide as an independent psychopathological phenomenon that includes emotional volatility as a risk factor and thoroughly evaluate psychiatric disorders potentially conferring greater suicidal propensity than depression.

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J Nerv Ment Dis

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EISSN

1539-736X

Publication Date

April 2015

Volume

203

Issue

4

Start / End Page

269 / 278

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Universities
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Students
  • Sex Factors
  • Self Report
  • Psychiatry
  • Middle Aged
  • Mental Disorders
  • Male
 

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Tupler, L. A., Hong, J. Y., Gibori, R., Blitchington, T. F., & Krishnan, K. R. R. (2015). Suicidal ideation and sex differences in relation to 18 major psychiatric disorders in college and university students: anonymous web-based assessment. J Nerv Ment Dis, 203(4), 269–278. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000277
Tupler, Larry A., Jennifer Y. Hong, Ron Gibori, Timothy F. Blitchington, and K Ranga R. Krishnan. “Suicidal ideation and sex differences in relation to 18 major psychiatric disorders in college and university students: anonymous web-based assessment.J Nerv Ment Dis 203, no. 4 (April 2015): 269–78. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000277.
Tupler LA, Hong JY, Gibori R, Blitchington TF, Krishnan KRR. Suicidal ideation and sex differences in relation to 18 major psychiatric disorders in college and university students: anonymous web-based assessment. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2015 Apr;203(4):269–78.
Tupler, Larry A., et al. “Suicidal ideation and sex differences in relation to 18 major psychiatric disorders in college and university students: anonymous web-based assessment.J Nerv Ment Dis, vol. 203, no. 4, Apr. 2015, pp. 269–78. Pubmed, doi:10.1097/NMD.0000000000000277.
Tupler LA, Hong JY, Gibori R, Blitchington TF, Krishnan KRR. Suicidal ideation and sex differences in relation to 18 major psychiatric disorders in college and university students: anonymous web-based assessment. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2015 Apr;203(4):269–278.

Published In

J Nerv Ment Dis

DOI

EISSN

1539-736X

Publication Date

April 2015

Volume

203

Issue

4

Start / End Page

269 / 278

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Universities
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Students
  • Sex Factors
  • Self Report
  • Psychiatry
  • Middle Aged
  • Mental Disorders
  • Male