Citation

Hazell P, Lewin T. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 1993; 32(1): 76-81.

Affiliation

Faculty of Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8428887

Abstract

Friends of adolescent suicide attempters and suicide completers were compared with students who had low exposure to suicide on a range of preexposure, concurrent, and outcome variables. Subjects who were friends of both suicide attempters and completers (N = 84) differed significantly from the low-exposure group (N = 554) on most variables examined. Friends of suicide completers only (N = 68) and attempters only (N = 92) did not differ from one another; however, the latter group reported significantly higher levels of current depression and suicidal behavior than the low-exposure group. Greater attention needs to be paid to friends of suicide attempters in the development and evaluation of suicide prevention strategies.

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