Identifying a clinical signature of suicidality among patients with mood disorders: A pilot study using a machine learning approach.

Journal: Journal of affective disorders
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: A growing body of evidence has put forward clinical risk factors associated with patients with mood disorders that attempt suicide. However, what is not known is how to integrate clinical variables into a clinically useful tool in order to estimate the probability of an individual patient attempting suicide.

Authors

  • Ives Cavalcante Passos
    Center of Excellence on Mood Disorder, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA; Bipolar Disorder Program and Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
  • Benson Mwangi
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA. Electronic address: Benson.Irungu@uth.tmc.edu.
  • Bo Cao
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
  • Jane E Hamilton
    Center of Excellence on Mood Disorder, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
  • Mon-Ju Wu
    University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
  • Xiang Yang Zhang
    Center of Excellence on Mood Disorder, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA; Beijing HuiLongGuan Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, PR China.
  • Giovana B Zunta-Soares
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA.
  • Joao Quevedo
    Center of Excellence on Mood Disorder, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
  • Marcia Kauer-Sant'Anna
    Bipolar Disorder Program and Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
  • Flávio Kapczinski
    Bipolar Disorder Program and Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
  • Jair C Soares
    University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.