Open AccessChildhood trauma, depression, resilience and suicide risk in individuals with inflammatory bowel disease
Author(s) -
Dean A. Tripp,
Krista Jones,
Valentina Mihajlovic,
Sandra Westcott,
Glenda MacQueen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of health psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1461-7277
pISSN - 1359-1053
DOI - 10.1177/1359105321999085
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , mediation , medicine , psychological resilience , suicide prevention , psychiatry , clinical psychology , poison control , injury prevention , intervention (counseling) , disease , psychology , medical emergency , psychotherapist , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics
Despite the prevalence of suicide risk in inflammatory bowel disease populations, research has yet to examine associations between childhood trauma, resilience, depression and suicide risk. In the present online study, 172 participants responded to measures of childhood trauma, resilience, depression and suicide risk. A moderated mediation revealed that resilience does not moderate the associations between childhood trauma, depressive symptoms and suicide risk. However, a serial mediation revealed that childhood trauma is associated with decreased resilience, which is related to higher depressive symptoms, and ultimately higher suicide risk, thus suggesting resilience and depression as significant intervention targets.