The Life Paths That Lead Teenagers to Attempted Suicide:Trajectories of Proximal Adversity (TAPAS)

University Hospital, Lille

Status

Completed

Conditions

Suicide, Attempted

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04638205

2018_20

2018-A03065-50 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Suicidal behaviors seriously alter the vital and functional prognosis of adolescents. Although the literature has lighted out a considerable number of risk factors for suicide attempts in youth, theoretical models - among which bio-psycho-social models - still lack empirical evidence. More specifically, the way adverse life events dynamically interact together and with the individual's diathesis to precipitate suicidal attempts remains unclear. Studies of life trajectories have opened an alternative approach to traditional linear epidemiological analysis to capture such a complex process. To date, adverse trajectories approaches never have been applied to the period immediately preceding the occurrence of the suicidal gesture (proximal adverse trajectories).

Enrollment

39 patients

Sex

All

Ages

15 to 24 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria for cases
Youth aged 15-24 inclusive
Who stayed at the hospital or in the emergency room for less than 15 days after a first suicide attempt
Who were discharged less than 15 days ago
Who gave their informed consent for majors, or whose parents gave their informed consent for minors Inclusion criteria for controls
Youth aged 15-24 inclusive
Who have never experienced any suicidal ideation or suicide attempt
Who gave their informed consent for majors, or whose parents gave their informed consent for minors Inclusion criteria for informants
Close relatives of the participant
Who are major
Who lived in the same household as the participant or have interacted with him/her for more than half the weeks of the year preceding the index suicide attempt