Identification of risk factors for attempted suicide by self-poisoning and a nomogram to predict self-poisoning suicide. 2023

Wenjing Zheng, and Le Gao, and Yanna Fan, and Chunyan Wang, and Yanqing Liu, and Fei Tian, and Min Yi, and Xiaobo Peng, and Chunzi Liu
Department of Chemical Poisoning Treatment, Senior Department of Hematology, The Fifth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.

Suicide is a global concern, especially among young people. Suicide prediction models have the potential to make it easier to identify patients who are at a high risk of suicide, but they have very little predictive power when there is a positive value for suicide mortality. Therefore, the aim of the study is to uncover potential risk factors associated with suicide by self-poisoning and further to provide a trustworthy nomogram to predict self-poisoning suicide among poisoned patients. This study prospectively enrolled 237 patients who were treated for poisoning at the Fifth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital (Beijing) between May 2021 and May 2022. Patient's basic characteristics, daily activities, mental health status, and history of psychological illnesses were gathered to examine their predictive power for self-poisoning suicide. On developing a prediction model, patients were split 8:2 into a training (n = 196) group and a validation (n = 41) group at random via computer. The training group worked on model development, while the validation group worked on model validation. In this study, the Hosmer and Lemeshow test, accuracy, and area under the curve were the primary evaluation criteria. Shapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) was determined to evaluate feature importance. To make the prediction model easy for researchers to utilize, it was presented in nomogram format. Two risk groups of patients were identified based on the ideal cut-off value. Of all poisoned patients, 64.6% committed suicide by self-poisoning. With regard to self-poisoning attempted suicide, multivariate analysis demonstrated that female gender, smoking, generalized anxiety disorder-7 (GAD-7), and beck hopelessness scale-20 (BHS-20) were significant risk factors, whereas married status, relatively higher education level, a sedentary time of 1-3 h per day, higher sport frequency per week, higher monthly income were significant protective features. The nomogram contained each of the aforementioned nine features. In the training group, the area under curve (AUC) of the nomogram was up to 0.938 (0.904-0.972), whereas in the validation group, it reached a maximum of 0.974 (0.937-1.000). Corresponding accuracy rates were up to 0.883 and 0.927, respectively, and the P-values for the Hosmer and Lemeshow test were 0.178 and 0.346, respectively. SHAP demonstrated that the top three most important features were BHS-20, GAD-7, and marital status. Based on the best cut-off value of the nomogram (40%), patients in the high-risk group had a nearly six-time larger likelihood of committing suicide by self-poisoning than patients in the low-risk group (88.68 vs. 15.38%, P < 0.001). The dynamic nomogram was made available at the following address: https://xiaobo.shinyapps.io/Nomogramselfpoisoningsuicide/. This study proposes a prediction model to stratify patients at a high risk of suicide by self-poisoning and to guide individual preventive strategies. Patients in the high-risk group require further mental health counseling to alleviate anxiety and hopelessness, healthy lifestyle like quitting smoking and exercising more, and restriction of access to poison and psychiatric drugs.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293 Adolescent A person 13 to 18 years of age. Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D012307 Risk Factors An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, inborn or inherited characteristic, which, based on epidemiological evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent. Health Correlates,Risk Factor Scores,Risk Scores,Social Risk Factors,Population at Risk,Populations at Risk,Correlates, Health,Factor, Risk,Factor, Social Risk,Factors, Social Risk,Risk Factor,Risk Factor Score,Risk Factor, Social,Risk Factors, Social,Risk Score,Score, Risk,Score, Risk Factor,Social Risk Factor
D013406 Suicide, Attempted The unsuccessful attempt to kill oneself. Parasuicide,Suicide Attempt,Attempt, Suicide,Attempted Suicide,Parasuicides
D049451 Nomograms Graphical representation of a statistical model containing scales for calculating the prognostic weight of a value for each individual variable. Nomograms are instruments that can be used to predict outcomes using specific clinical parameters. They use ALGORITHMS that incorporate several variables to calculate the predicted probability that a patient will achieve a particular clinical endpoint. Partin Nomograms,Partin Tables,Nomogram,Nomogram, Partin,Nomograms, Partin,Partin Nomogram,Partin Table,Table, Partin,Tables, Partin

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