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Two structured interview measures of suicidal behavior were administered to 43 child psychiatric inpatients between the ages of 7 and 11 and their parents. DSM-III-R diagnoses were assigned to the children, with twenty-six Axis I and Axis II diagnostic categories represented. Generally, the interview measures of suicidal behavior were found to be unrelated to psychiatric diagnosis. The results suggest that to better understand pre-adolescent suicidal behaviors, it may be more useful to examine associations between these behaviors and the biopsychosocial dimensions that underlie the diagnostic categories.
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This study was funded in part by a Biomedical Research Support Grant from the Medical College of Ohio.
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Milling, L., Campbell, N.B., Bush, E. et al. The relationship of suicidality and psychiatric diagnosis in hospitalized pre-adolescent children. Child Psych Hum Dev 23, 41–49 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00706699
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