Citation

Stanton C, Spirito A, Donaldson D, Boergers J. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2003; 33(1): 74-79.

Affiliation

Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12710542

Abstract

This study examined the overall rates of common risk-taking behaviors in a sample of 109 adolescents, aged 13 to 18 years, who made a suicide attempt, compared to a matched control sample of 218 adolescents in the community. No differences in either the total number of risk-taking behavior or the frequency of individual risk-taking behaviors were found. These findings suggest that suicide attempts in adolescents are not a function of risk-taking behavior.