Citation

Borges GLG, Azrael DR, Almeida J, Johnson RM, Molnar BE, Hemenway DA, Miller MC. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2011; 41(2): 193-202.

Affiliation

Guilherme Borges, National Institute of Psychiatry & Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico; DeborahAzrael, Beth E. Molnar, DavidHemenway and MatthewMiller, Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Renee M. Johnson, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; and JoannaAlmeida, Institute on Urban Health Research, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1943-278X.2010.00016.x

PMID

21470295

Abstract

The prevalence and immigration-related correlates of deliberate self-injury (DSI) and suicidal ideation (SI) were estimated in a sample of Boston public high school students in 2006. Compared with U.S.-born youth, immigrant youth were not at increased risk for DSI or SI, even if they had experienced discrimination due to their ancestry. By contrast, U.S.-born youth who reported having been discriminated against because of their ancestry had an increased risk of deliberate self-injury (odds ratio [OR] = 3.1, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.6-5.9) and suicidal ideation (OR = 2.1, 95% CI = 1.2-3.8). The combination of being U.S.-born and experiencing ancestry-based discrimination identifies youth at increased risk for suicidal behavior.

Language: en