Predictors of suicidal behavior with emphasis on protective factors and risk factors among prisoners

Identifying factors affecting the tendency to risky behaviors is important and necessary, which can be useful in reducing these behaviors. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the predictors of suicidal behavior with an emphasis on protective factors and risk factors  among prisoners.

The method of this research is descriptive-correlation. The statistical population in this research includes the prisoners of Kermanshah Central Prison (Dizil Abad) in the first 6 months of 1401, 250 people who met the criteria for entering the present study and declared their readiness to fill out the research instruments were selected by convenience sampling method. and answered to Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RIS), The Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised (SBQ-R), Schizotypal Trait questionnaire-B form (STB). After collecting the questionnaires, the collected data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis. After collecting the questionnaires, the collected data were analyzed using the multiple regression test simultaneously.

The results showed that the results showed that Borderline personality symptoms (β=0.496, P=0.21), Symptoms of antisocial disorder (β=0.144, P=0.001) and Resilience (β = -0.217, P=0.005) provides a meaningful explanation of the suicidal behavior of prisoners. Also, none of the components of social support provide a meaningful explanation of the suicidal behavior of prisoners.

Based on the results of this research, borderline and antisocial personality disorders and resilience can play a central role in suicide attempts. Since timely educational and rehabilitation interventions can save time and treatment costs, it is suggested that after identifying prisoners at risk of committing suicide, these prisoners are separated from other prisoners and in classes and training sessions with Emphasis on psychotherapy based on dialectical behavior therapy and psychotherapy based on mentalization and training based on resilience, which has empirical evidence for these disorders, with the aim of preventing suicide attempts.