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ASAD Criteria Predicted Past Suicide Attempts
J Affect Disord; ePub 2017 Jan 3; Rogers, et al
Acute Suicidal Affective Disturbance (ASAD) criteria predicted past suicide attempts above depression and other disorders, according to a recent study. Researchers had 2 samples of psychiatric outpatients (n=343, aged 18–71 years, 60.6% female, 74.9% white) and inpatients (n=7,698, aged 15–99 years, 57.2% female, 87.8% white) complete measures of their ASAD symptoms and psychological functioning. They found:
- Across both samples, results of a confirmatory factor analysis supported the unidimensional nature of the ASAD construct.
- Additionally, results provided evidence for the convergent and discriminant validity of ASAD, demonstrating its relation to, yet distinction from, other psychiatric disorders and correlates of suicide in expected ways.
- Importantly, ASAD symptoms differentiated multiple attempters, single attempters, and non-attempters, as well as attempters, ideators, and non-suicidal patients, and was an indicator of past suicide attempts above and beyond symptoms of depression and other psychiatric disorders.
Rogers ML, Chiurliza B, Hagan CR, et al. Acute suicidal affective disturbance: Factorial structure and initial validation across psychiatric outpatient and inpatient samples. [Published online ahead of print January 3, 2017]. J Affect Disord. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2016.12.057.