Suicide risk after suicide bereavement: The role of loss-related characteristics, mental health, and hopelessness

Grafiadeli, Raphaela; Glaesmer, Heide; Hofmann, Laura; Schäfer, Thomas; Wagner, Birgit

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.09.056

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“…Coping and adapting to a loss by suicide can be particularly challenging owing to feelings of guilt, responsibility, shame, and rejection [ 5 , 6 ] and may have long-lasting impact on physical and mental health, including increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviours [ 7 , 8 , 9 ]. The bereavement may also have long-lasting consequences for families as well as individuals, altering patterns of communications within the family unit and contributing to the loss of cohesion and relationship breakdown [ 10 ].…”

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Scoping Review of Peer-Led Support for People Bereaved by Suicide

Higgins

Hybholt

Meuser

et al. 2022

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Suicide bereavement support groups are a widely available format of postvention service. Although other reviews have addressed peer-led bereavement interventions, no review has focused specifically on peer-led support for people bereaved by suicide. Informed by a framework for undertaking scoping reviews, we conducted a systematic review according to PRISMA-ScR guidelines. Searches conducted in May 2021 of peer-reviewed literature in MEDLINE (EBSCO), CINAHL Complete (EBSCO), PsycINFO (EBSCO), EMBASE (Elsevier), AMED (EBSCO), ERIC (EBSCO), Web of Science (Core Collection), ASSIA (Proquest), and Global Index Medicus. The search was not limited by language, and all studies were included to full text screening. The search identified 10 studies conducted between 1994 and 2020 in five countries. The selected papers were subjected to quality assessment. The interventions included face-to-face groups, telephone and online groups/forums and were evaluated using a variety of methodologies, which made comparison and synthesis challenging. Thematic analysis resulted in four themes: motivation, impact, aspects of intervention which hindered/enhanced outcomes, and recommendations for the practice of peer support made by the authors. While there were methodological limitations to most studies included in this review; the studies do indicate the potential benefit of peer-led support to those bereaved through suicide. Future studies should provide a definition of ‘peer’ and a clear description of the intervention being evaluated. As the field matures there is a need for more rigorous evaluation of peer interventions with representative samples, studies that compare the impact of various types of peer interventions, and studies of the peer group processes.

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Scoping Review of Peer-Led Support for People Bereaved by Suicide

Higgins

Hybholt

Meuser

et al. 2022

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“…In line with the hopelessness theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide hopelessness is strongly correlated and is considered as a vital risk factor for suicidal orientation mainly when the person considers that he or she cannot modify the interaction with the environment (Abramson et al, 2000;Grafiadeli et al, 2021), specifically when young people report feeling isolated and having difficulty integrating into university life (Goodwill, 2022;Strayhorn, 2018). In turn, feelings of alienation in combination with the perception of being a burden to others, and low self-esteem end up closing the vicious circle of hopelessness, in which case the only way out they perceive is to commit suicide.…”

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“…Different studies have reported the role of depressive symptoms and hopelessness in suicidal orientation with varying results (Kan et al, 2022;Núñez et al, 2023;Wang et al, 2015). Furthermore, it has been found that hopelessness represents a greater risk for suicide than depression (Grafiadeli et al, 2021). In this regard, hopelessness theory postulates negative expectancy about the occurrence of a highly valued event in addition with feelings of helplessness about the possibility of modifying the probability of occurrence of that event are sufficient factors for people to become depressed and at greater risk for suicidal orientation (Abramson et al, 2000).…”

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The role of impulsivity in orientation to suicide of university students with a history of self-injury behavior

Núñez,

Gómez-Tavares,

Moreno

et al. 2024

Behav. Psychol.

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The aim of this research was to describe the effect of depression, hopelessness, and impulsivity on orientation to suicide and the role of impulsivity as a mediator of suicidal orientation in university students with a history of self-injury behaviors. 1645 young people between 18 and 29 years old participated, from two Colombian cities. 218 young people were selected (M= 21.00; SD= 2.99) who reported at least one suicide attempt in the last year, who answered the “Suicidal Orientation Inventory”, the “Beck Hopelessness Scale”, the “Beck Depression Inventory” and the “Barratt Impulsivity Scale”. Depression, hopelessness, and impulsivity explained 63% of the variation in suicidal orientation (R2= .635, IC 95% [.555, .713], p= .001). Impulsivity mediated with depression in those cases in which suicidal orientation was high, whose total, direct and indirect effects were statistically significant (p< .001). Impulsivity plays a mediating role between depression and hopelessness in predicting suicidal orientation.

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“…In addition to the above, in the time elapsed between the death of the loved one and the moment of evaluation some investigations have reported a greater presence of complicated grief among suicide survivors [ 12 , 15 , 16 ], showing that the response of collaborating with and participating in an investigation can be significantly reduced based on the experience of grief.…”

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“…Studies have reported that suicide survivors have more risk factors for their emotional health, and are more vulnerable to emotional distress and psychopathology such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, complicated grief, and even suicidal ideation and behavior [ 15 , 16 ]. In research where psychological autopsies and interviews with survivors have been conducted, mental-health problems have been identified before and after the death of the individual in more than half of their families, as well as many cases of attempted and completed suicide among survivors, which may be associated with genetic factors, stressors, and shared environments, with the conclusion that survivors are at high risk for suicide [ 17 , 18 ].…”

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Risk and Protective Factors in Ecuadorian Adolescent Survivors of Suicide

et al. 2023

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Suicide is one of the main causes of death among the adolescent population, which is why it is considered an important mental-health problem. In addition to this situation, for each suicide, the group of people who survive it (known as suicide survivors) can present serious emotional affectations, becoming a population at risk for this problem. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of suicide-survivor status on risk factors and protective factors for suicide. A total of 440 adolescents with a mean age of 15.78 (SD = 1.74) participated, who were divided according to survivor status, identified as the SV group (79 cases), and non-survivors, identified as the NSV group—adolescents that did not have experience or contact with a suicide attempt (361 cases). A questionnaire of sociodemographic characterization and risk conditions, the Alexian Brother Urge to Self-Injure (ABUSI), the Plutchik Suicide Risk Scale, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and the Cognitive and Affective Empathy Test (TECA) were applied. Descriptive statistics, mean difference for independent samples, contingency tables, X2 statistic, Fisher’s exact statistic, and Cohen’s d coefficient were used. The results show significant differences between SV and NSV participants in risk and protective factors regarding the presence of a greater adoption of perspective and emotional understanding. On the other hand, NSV adolescents presented higher scores of perceived social supports regarding risk factors, and there was a higher proportion of a history of suicide attempt, severity/hospitalization, impulse to self-harm, and level of suicidal risk in the SV group. The need to incorporate forms of suicide prevention with the survivor population is discussed, increasing the possibilities of postvention.

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Suicide risk after suicide bereavement: The role of loss-related characteristics, mental health, and hopelessness

Cited by 16 publications

References 45 publications

Scoping Review of Peer-Led Support for People Bereaved by Suicide

Scoping Review of Peer-Led Support for People Bereaved by Suicide

The role of impulsivity in orientation to suicide of university students with a history of self-injury behavior

Risk and Protective Factors in Ecuadorian Adolescent Survivors of Suicide

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