Children’s cognitive performance and suicide risk through middle adulthood

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‘Children’s cognitive performance and suicide risk through middle adulthood’

Paper from the JCPP

Longitudinal studies show that lower cognitive performance in adolescence and early adulthood is associated with higher risk of suicide death throughout adulthood. However, it is unclear whether this cognitive vulnerability originates earlier in childhood since studies conducted in children are scarce and have inconsistent results.

Vital status of 49,853 individuals born between 1959 and 1966 to participants in the Collaborative Perinatal Project cohort was determined by a probabilistic linkage to the National Death Index, covering all US deaths occurring from 1979 through 2016. Cox proportional hazard models were used to examine associations of general, verbal, and non-verbal intelligence at ages 4 and 7, and academic skills at age 7 with suicide death coded according to ICD-9/10 criteria, while accounting for sociodemographic and pregnancy factors previously associated with suicide in this sample.

Authors: Pablo Vidal-Ribas, Theemeshni Govender, Jing Yu, Rajeshwari Sundaram, Roy H. Perlis, Stephen E. Gilman

First published: 01 June 2023

https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13841

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