People who have had a difficult childhood have a higher risk of suicide. Adolescence is a pivotal period: delinquency would increase the risks.
You never get over your childhood. Especially when it was, for several reasons, traumatic. It then leaves indelible marks that increase the risk of suicide in early adulthood.
A new study, published by the Journal of American Medical Association, shows that for these people who had a difficult childhood, adolescence is a turning point.
What is meant by “difficult childhood”?
476,103 people were followed by researchers for 5 to 9 years.
All had had a difficult childhood, based on several criteria: death of one or more parents, parental drug addiction or psychiatric disorders, criminal offenses, intervention of child protection services and residential instability.
Twenty years later, researchers looked to these cases again in order to establish the suicide rate.
An 8% higher risk of suicide
And it turns out that those who became delinquents in adolescence were 8% more likely to commit suicide. The researchers considered delinquent those who had been recognized of a violent crime between their 15 and 19 years.
So what happens in adolescence would be the real detonator. The path taken at this time by people victims of violence during childhood is therefore essential.
Another essential role too, but to avoid suicide: the psychological support provided to young people who have had a difficult childhood. Without doubt the best way to prevent them from choosing the path of violence and delinquency.
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