Psychological and behavioral characterization of suicide ideators and suicide attempters in adolescence

Introduction. This database includes the raw data linked with the paper “Psychological and behavioral characterization of suicide ideators and suicide attempters in adolescence”. In this paper, we reported sociodemographic features, family history of any DSM-5 psychiatric disorder, personal history of any DSM-5 psychiatric disorder, risk factors for suicide, psychopathological assessment, and level of functioning. We aimed at better charaterizing the features most frequently related to the implementation of a concrete suicidal attempt.

Methods. Participants were divided in two groups by using the semi-structured interview Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale - Children Baseline Screening (C-SSRS) assessing the presence of suicidal ideation and/or suicidal behavior: 1) adolescents with a history of Suicidal Behavior (SB), 2) adolescents with wish to be death or active suicidal ideation but no Suicidal Behavior (NSB).

Results. We found that the SB group showed higher suicidal ideation severity, higher levels of subjective depression, and higher prevalence of personality disorders compared to the NSB group. The NSB group exhibited non-suicidal self-injury more frequently than the SB group. Both groups presented a prevalence of internalizing problems compared to the externalizing ones at the Youth Self-Report 11-18 questionnaire (YSR). Subjects who presented an internalizing disorder at the YSR showed a prevalence of rejection to life at the Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency (MAST) scale in both SB and NSB groups, while low levels of MAST attachment to life appeared more often in the SB group. The two groups did not differ in terms of objective clinical assessment, suicidal ideation frequency and psychosocial and work functioning.