Citation

Colucci E, Martin G. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2007; 37(2): 197-221.

Affiliation

Candidate in the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Queensland, Australia, and a Research Fellow with the Centre for International Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1521/suli.2007.37.2.197

PMID

17521273

Abstract

The study of ethnocultural aspects of suicidal behaviour is, at the moment, still a neglected area. The relatively few studies available are mainly on adults; young people usually are not examined separately. The authors reviewed 82 publications on youth suicide that have addressed, to different degrees, the ethnicity/culture of the population studied. Following a description of the main characteristics shared by these researches (e.g., predominance of studies on Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics; lack of qualitative methodology, etc.), the rates and methods of youth suicide, from a cross-cultural perspective are discussed.

Language: en