Merrick Joav, Merrick Efrat, Morad Mohammed, Kandel Isack
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
ScientificWorldJournal. 2005 Sep 8;5:724-8. doi: 10.1100/tsw.2005.90.
It has been assumed that impaired intellectual capacity could act as a buffer to suicidality in the population of children and adolescents with intellectual disability. The few studies that have been conducted contest this assumption and in fact the findings showed that the characteristics of suicidality in the population of children and adolescents with intellectual disability are very similar to other adolescents without intellectual disability. This paper reviews the few studies conducted and describe the symptomatology in this population.
人们一直认为，智力受损可能对智力残疾儿童和青少年群体的自杀倾向起到缓冲作用。已开展的少数研究对这一假设提出了质疑，事实上，研究结果表明，智力残疾儿童和青少年群体的自杀倾向特征与其他非智力残疾青少年非常相似。本文回顾了已开展的少数研究，并描述了该群体的症状表现。
