Alejandro Porras-Segovia, MD, PhD

Translational Psychiatry Research Group, Health Research Institute Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

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About

Alejandro Porras-Segovia, MD, PhD, is affiliated with the Translational Psychiatry Research Group at the Health Research Institute Fundación Jiménez Díaz in Madrid, Spain, and the Department of Psychiatry at University Hospital Rey Juan Carlos in Móstoles, Madrid. Between 2021 and 2026, Porras-Segovia has published extensively on suicide and child and adolescent psychiatry, focusing on topics such as nonsuicidal self-injury, suicidal ideation, emergency department revisits for suicidal behavior, treatment compliance in suicide victims, and longitudinal assessments of patients at high risk of suicide. Collaborators frequently include Enrique Baca-García, Philippe Courtet, and Ana María de Granda-Beltrán.

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Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Its Association with Suicidal Ideation and Negative Affect
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Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Its Association with Suicidal Ideation and Negative Affect

April 8, 2026

Desire to self-harm was associated with nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) episodes. Further, NSSI was related to higher negative affect and negative interpersonal experience, which decreased across follow-up.
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Factors Associated with Revisiting the Emergency Department due to Suicidal Behavior in Children and Adolescents
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Factors Associated with Revisiting the Emergency Department due to Suicidal Behavior in Children and Adolescents

January 28, 2026

Within 6 months of the initial emergency department (ED) visit, 21.7% of patients who initially attended the ED for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors returned for the same reason.
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Underdiagnosis, Undertreatment, and Noncompliance With Treatment in People Who Died by Suicide
Original Research

Underdiagnosis, Undertreatment, and Noncompliance With Treatment in People Who Died by Suicide

July 10, 2024

Depression was diagnosed prior to death in 18.6% of people with a major depressive episode who died by suicide. Antidepressants were prescribed in 21.5% of these individuals, but only...
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Six-Month Follow-Up of Patients at Risk of Suicide Using Smartphone Data and Clinical Assessment
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Six-Month Follow-Up of Patients at Risk of Suicide Using Smartphone Data and Clinical Assessment

December 14, 2022

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is increasingly used to detect suicidal ideation in real time. This study combined EMA with traditional clinical follow-up to explore correlates of suicidal relapse in...
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Letter to the Editor

If Suicide Were COVID-19: A Neglected Cause of Premature Death

February 23, 2021

This letter points to the disparity in resources devoted to combating COVID-19 versus another preventable epidemic: suicide.
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