The role of childhood maltreatment and mental health disorders on suicidal behaviour in adolescents

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This research was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN) (PI19/01027) integrated into the Plan Nacional de I+D+I and cofinanced by the ISCIII-Subdireccion General de Evaluacion and cofinanced by the Eurorean Union (FEDER, FSE, Next Generation EU/Plan de Recuperacion Transformacion y Resiliencia_PRTR), the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, the Government of the Principality of Asturias PCTI-2021-2023 IDI/2021/111, the Fundacion para la Investigacion e Innovacion Biosanitaria del Principado de Asturias (FINBA), and Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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Gomez-Vallejo, SAuthorVieta, ECorresponding AuthorRoberto, NAuthorGrande, ICorresponding AuthorFares, NataliaAuthor

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Publicated to:Child Abuse & Neglect. 159 107151- - 2025-01-03 159(), DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107151

Authors: Gomez-Vallejo, S; Diaz-Marsa, M; Fernandez Rodrigues, V; Andreo-Jover, J; Bobes-Bascaran, T; Cebria, A I; Crespo Facorro, B; Garrido-Torres, N; Gonzalez-Pinto, A; Jimenez-Tevino, L; Lara, E; Lopez-Pena, M P; Palao-Tarrero, A; Palao, D J; Perez, V; Ruiz-Veguilla, M; Saiz, P A; Sanchez-Carro, Y; de la Torre-Luque, A; Vidal Bermejo, E; Vieta, E; Zorrilla, I; Roberto, N; Grande, I; Bobes, J; Lazaro, Luisa; Bracco, Lorenzo; Corbalan, Fernando; Fares, Natalia; Ayad-Ahmed, Wala; Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Jose; Fernandez-Fernandez, Jennifer; Garcia-Fernandez, Ainoa; Garcia-Ramos, Adriana; Imaz, Carlos; Leal-Leturia, Itziar; Olivares, Luis; Paya, Beatriz; Pemau, Andres; Perez-Guerra, Carla; Seijo-Zazo, Elisa; Tur, Nuria

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Hosp Clin Barcelona, Bipolar & Depress Disorders Unit, C Villarroel 170, Barcelona 08036, Spain - Author

Hosp Clin Barcelona, Dept Child & Adolescent Psychiat & Psychol, Barcelona, Spain - Author

Hosp Clin San Carlos, Madrid, Spain - Author

Hosp del Mar, Inst Salud Mental, Res Inst, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain - Author

Hosp La Paz Inst Hlth Res IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain - Author

Hosp Univ Parc Tauli, Mental Hlth Serv, Barcelona, Spain - Author

Hosp Virgen Del Rocio Sevilla, Seville, Spain - Author

Inst Invest Biomed August Pi & Sunyer IDIBAPS, C Villarroel 170, Barcelona 08036, Spain - Author

Inst Invest Sanitaria Principado Asturias ISPA, Oviedo, Spain - Author

Inst Salud Carlos III, Ctr Invest Biomed Red Salud Mental CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain - Author

Inst Univ Neurociencias Principado Asturias INEUR, Oviedo, Spain - Author

La Paz Univ Hosp, Dept Psychiat Clin Psychol & Mental Hlth, Madrid, Spain - Author

Serv Salud Principado Asturias SESPA, Oviedo, Spain - Author

UAB, INc, Unitat Mixta Neurociencia Traslac I3PT, Barcelona 08208, Spain - Author

Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Psychiat & Forens Med, Fac Med, Cerdanyola Del Valles 08193, Spain - Author

Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Fac Psychol, Dept Clin & Hlth Psychol, Cerdanyola Del Valles 08193, Spain - Author

Univ Autonoma Madrid UAM, Dept Psychiat, Madrid, Spain - Author

Univ Barcelona UB, Inst Neurociencies, Fac Med & Ciencies Salut, Dept Med, C Casanova 143, Barcelona 08036, Spain - Author

Univ Basque Country, Hosp Univ Alava, Dept Psychiat, BIOARABA, Vitoria, Spain - Author

Univ Complutense Madrid, Fac Psychol, Dept Psychol, Madrid, Spain - Author

Univ Complutense Madrid, Sch Med, Dept Legal Med Psychiat & Pathology, Madrid, Spain - Author

Univ Oviedo, Dept Psychol, Oviedo, Spain - Author

Abstract

Background: Suicide stands as a grave and pressing public health concern, ranking among the foremost causes of death in the youth demographics. While childhood maltreatment (CM) and mental disorders have garnered substantial attention as risk factors for suicide, there remains an enigmatic aspect concerning how these two elements interact, influencing the nature of suicidal ideation and suicidal behaviour, and the transition between them. Objective: This study endeavours to shed light on the intricate interplay between CM, mental disorders, and suicide. Participants and setting: We gathered data from 289 adolescents aged 12-17 (87.2 % female) drawn from eight different hospitals across Spain, all of whom had attempted suicide within the past 10 days. Methods: We assessed suicidal ideation severity and intensity, suicidal behaviour by attempts using the C-SSRS, and the presence of CM using CTQ and identified concurrent mental disorders number of suicide attempts with the presence of a mental disorder. Additionally, we found that under-report suicidal ideation. Hence, these findings offer a potential key to identifying and

Keywords

AbuseAdolescentChildChild abuseChildhood traumaDepressionFemaleHumansIdeationMaleMental disordersMetaanalysisMultipleMultisitPrevalencePreventionRiskRisk factorsSpainSuicidal ideationSuicide riskSuicide, attemptedTraumaValidationYoutYouth

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The work has been published in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 15/76, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Psychology, Social.

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There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Gómez Vallejo, Sandra) .