PhD Scientific Days

Poster Presentation: Mental Health

P10: Impulsivity, as a risk factor of the probability of suicide.

Előadó neve

Pató, Irina

Előadó munkahelye

National Insititution of Prison of Szombathely

Előadó telefonszáma

306934715

Előadó e-mail címe

irinaapato@gmail.com

Az előadás címe

Impulsivity, as a risk factor of the probability of suicide.

Szerző(k) neve és munkahelye

Pató Irina12, Gabriella Szabó2, Boglárka Erdélyi-Belle2,Dóra Percel-Forintos 2
1 National Insititution of Prison of Szombathely
2 Semmelweis University, Faculuty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Psychology

Szekció

Poster Presentation: Mental Health

Data of the presenter

Doctoral School: Semmelweis University Mental Health Sciences
Program: Mental Health Sciences
Supervisor: Dr. Perczel-Forintos Dóra
E-mail address: perczel-forintos.dora@med.semmelweis-univ.hu

Text of the abstract

In our country, based on statistics the importance of suicidal prevention is espiecially high, as we are ranked on the second place in Europe and also ranked among the first ten wordlwide when it comes to completed suicides, with a proportion of 19/100.000. It is also know that the number of attempts are six times higher.

The topic of suicide and self harm is handled with high importance by the law enforcement bodies. These two notions, however they might seem similar, in fact, bear a different meanings. Suicide is a form of self-harm, resulting in the death of the individual. However self-harm, or in a more contemporary notion - parasuicude, is a deliberate intention of hurting, but without the actual intention of dying.
In law inforcement institutes the rate of self-harm is quite high, approximately 50%, according to a survey from 2009. The main motivation for self-harm caused by inmates in prisons is called impulsive stress deduction. The way this harm is executed and its intensiveness is never driven by rationality, therefore the act of harm can lead to death even unwillingly.

One of the main conditions of prevention is getting a better knowledge about the dangers of suicide: changeable and unchangeable risk factors, adequate knowledge about the state of crisis and communication with aiding purposes. It is known, that a powerful predictor of suicide is a negative cognitive structure and hopelessness. Further risks are faced if the problem solving skills are too low, which is a factor of hopelessness, in addition, impusivity, which can be found in many subcategories of suicide attempts.

The purpose of our research was to investigate correlations between detainees - an exceptionally high risk population in many aspects - and normal population as control subjects. The investigated fields include impulsivity, regulation of emotions, problem-solving skills and other relevant personality traits.

Type of examination: paper-based amd online data processing

Participators: 138 convicted inmates held in law enforcement institutes and 168 general volunteers from the population of the Hungarian society.

Tools for measurement: Beck Depression Scale, short (BDI-R), Beck Hopelessness Scale, short (BHS-R), Means-End ProblemSolvingInventory (MEPS), Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSS4), Barratt Impulsiveness Questionnaire (BIS-11), Paykel Suicide Scale (PSS), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ)

Based on our assumptions, (1) impulsiveness is in a negative correlation with skilss of emotion regulation and problem solving; (2) on grounds of impulsiveness, there will be no difference between the two groups and this notion can be of high importance when it comes to the high suicide rates in our country. We will demonstrate the results in detail in our presentation.

Discussion: as all of the examined factors are among the changeable risk factors, thus our achieved results can be significant in developing the effectiveness of preventing suicides in our country.

Azonosító

P10

Kind

Szabad

Előadás fájl jóváhagyás

nem rendelkezett róla

Előadó

1123

PhD Scientific Days 2017

Budapest, 11-12 April 2017