Call 911: Suicidal individuals’ help-seeking means as associated with their outcomes

Public suicide prevention efforts have done little to dismantle suicide as the tenth leading cause of death in the United States in 2018. The 911 emergency call system is an essential part of these public health efforts; 20% of crisis calls to police originate from individuals battling a mental health crisis or illness. This study examined over 1,071 Washington State Police 911 calls to determine if help-seeking means could help predict the fate of the suicidal individual. The referral means by family and friends, self-referral, or bystanders more likely predicted monitoring by public authorities, safety intervention, or adverse outcome, respectively

Emotion dysregulation and acquired capability for suicide: A correlational analysis

This study examines the relationship between emotion dysregulation and acquired capability for suicide using self-report, behavioral, and physiological measures. Participants (N = 47) completed the Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; Gratz & Roemer, 2004) and the Cold Pressor Task (CPT). Bivariate correlational analyses were conducted to examine the strength and direction of associations between several variables including participants’ age and gender, baseline emotion dysregulation (i.e., DERS scores), baseline respiratory sinus arrythmia (RSA) and withdrawal RSA, and pain tolerance, persistence, and threshold values. Results suggest that an individual’s ability to self-regulate at rest is associated with greater persistence through pain

Methods of Self-Injury Mediate Emotion Dysregulation and Acquired Capability for Suicide.

Theories of suicide suggest what moves people from suicidal ideation to suicidal behavior is ability to overcome distress and pain associated with suicide. This capability (AC) is thought to be acquired through exposure to painful or provocative stimuli (Joiner, 2005). Emotion dysregulation predicted AC (b = -0.021, SE = 0.011, p = .046), and NSSI (b = 0.014, SE = 0.003, p \u3c .01) while NSSI predicted AC (b = 0.576, SE = 0.196, p \u3c .01). The indirect effect of NSSI methods on emotion dysregulation and AC was significant (b = 0.008, BootSE = 0.005, CI95 = [0.001, 0.019]. Four percent of the relationship between emotion dysregulation and AC occurs through the number of NSSI methods

Brooding rumination and suicidal desire: Exploring the moderating role of mindfulness.

Using self-report measures of rumination, suicidal desire, and mindfulness, this study examined whether mindfulness moderates the relationship between rumination and proximal predictors of suicidal desire (Van Orden et al., 2010). Participants completed the Rumination Response Scale (RRS; Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991) to measure rumination and the 15-item Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (INQ-15; Van Orden et al., 2012), to measure predictors of suicidal desire. The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ; Baer et al., 2006) measured mindfulness. After a hierarchical regression analysis, results suggested a significant effect of brooding rumination in proximal predictors of suicidal desire, but did not support a moderating relationship