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Reasons for living and hope as the protective factors against suicidality in Chinese patients with depression: a cross sectional study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Psychiatry, July 2016
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Title
Reasons for living and hope as the protective factors against suicidality in Chinese patients with depression: a cross sectional study
Published in
BMC Psychiatry, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12888-016-0960-0
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Xingwei Luo, Qin Wang, Xiang Wang, Taisheng Cai

Abstract

The risk factors of suicidal ideation and attempts have been discussed in many researches. Few studies have examined reasons for living and hope as protective factors against suicide in a clinical population. It is unclear if these factors help to reduce suicide rates in patients with depression. The study aimed to assess the role of reasons for living and hope in the identification and reduction of suicidality and explore the influence of reasons for living or hope in the transition from suicidal ideation to suicide attempts. Patients with depression (N = 115) completed the Beck Depression Inventory, Reasons for Living Inventory, and Adult Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire. There were significant correlations among depression, hope, total reasons for living, and suicidal ideation and attempts. Further, after controlling for depression, reasons for living and hope had significant main effects on suicidal ideation. Hope also had a significant predictive effect in the transition of suicidal ideation to suicide attempt. We concluded that reasons for living and hope may protect against suicidal ideation and attempts in patients with depression. Especially hope could reduce the possibility of suicide attempt.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 88 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 10%
Student > Bachelor 9 10%
Student > Postgraduate 8 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 26 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 30 34%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 11%
Social Sciences 4 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 26 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 March 2018.
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#1,294,740
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#398
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Psychiatry
#8
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