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Anxiety, OCD in kids may lead to

suicidal thoughts
Publish Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 04:48 PM IST

Anxiety, OCD in kids may lead to suicidal thoughts. (Representational Image)

Madrid | IANS: Parents, take note. Depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive

disorder (OCD) are the main reasons why children think about suicide, warn
researchers.
 The study, published in the journal Archives of Suicide Research, reveals the factors
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that can trigger ideas of suicide in a pre-adolescent age group.

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Nuria Voltas from Rovira I Virgili University in Spain.

The researchers studied a group of 720 boys and 794 girls who studied in 13 schools
in Reus. They were monitored during three developmental periods according to age
groups of 10 years, 11 years and 13 years.

At the beginning of the study, the students answered a series of psychological tests
that were used to detect which of them presented emotional symptoms related to
depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

From their responses, two groups were created: one group at risk of emotional
problems and a control group.

According to the researchers, the figures were quite stable. During the first period,
16 per cent of the students stated that they had thought about suicide, of whom 33
per cent stated the same one year later. In both the second and the third periods,
ideas of suicide were expressed by 18 per cent of the students surveyed.

The risk of suicide was determined in a personal interview and was present in 12.2
per cent of the children with an average age of 11 years old. Although there were
no differences between the sexes, the severity of the suicidal behaviour was greater
in boys.

"Our results will enable us to have greater control over this particular aspect and
take preventive measures in pre-adolescents, who are going through a period of
considerable vulnerability," she concluded.

Posted By: Aalok Sensharma

# anxiety # ocd # suicidal thoughts # suicide

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