Citation

Queralt M. Child. Sch. 1993; 15(2): 91-103.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, National Association of Social Workers [USA], Publisher Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/cs/15.2.91

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This is the first study to explore psychosocial risk factors associated with suicide attempts among Latino adolescents living in the United States. The sample consisted of 14 Latino adolescents aged 13 to 19 who attended public schools in Miami and who were selected at random fromamong those reported to have attempted suicide in the 1988to 1989 school year. Data were derived from a questionnaire completed by the school counselors of the attempters andof an equal number of randomly selected Latino nonattempters. Most of the attempters were teenage girls who had usedan ingestion method and who previously had thought of threatened, or attempted suicide. They had experienced significantly more family, school, psychiatric, and migration andacculturation problems than did the nonattempters. Implications for research, suicide prevention, and intervention are discussed. © 1993, National Association of Social Workers, Inc.

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