Factors that may increase a person’s risk for suicide
include:
• Current
ideation, intent, plan, access to means
• Previous
suicide attempt or attempts
• Current or
previous history of psychiatric diagnosis
• Impulsivity
and poor self control
• Hopelessness
– presence, duration, severity
• Recent
losses – physical, financial, personal
• Recent
discharge from an inpatient psychiatric unit
• Family
history of suicide
• History of
abuse (physical, sexual or emotional)
• Co-morbid
health problems, especially a newly diagnosed problem or worsening symptoms
• Age,
gender, race (elderly or young adult, unmarried, white, male, living alone)
• Same- sex sexual
orientation
Factors that may decrease the risk for suicide are also
called protective factors. These
include:
• Positive
social support
• Spirituality
• Sense of
responsibility to family
• Children in
the home, pregnancy
• Life
satisfaction
• Reality
testing ability
• Positive
coping skills
• Positive
problem-solving skills
• Positive
therapeutic relationship
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