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Reducing loneliness may decrease suicidality risk among adolescents having depressed mothers – News-Medical.Net

Children of mothers experiencing depressive symptoms are more at risk, as adolescents, of experiencing suicidal thoughts and attempting suicide.

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Children of mothers experiencing depressive symptoms are more at risk, as adolescents, of experiencing suicidal thoughts and attempting suicide.
New research suggests that this link may be explained by loneliness, potentially opening new ways for youth suicide prevention.
The study – by the universities of Exeter, Montréal, Laval and McGill – used data from more than 1,600 families from the Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, a representative sample of new-borns in Quebec followed from…

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