TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - The association between suicide screening practices and attempts requiring emergency care in juvenile justice facilities
JO  - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
A1  - Gallagher, Catherine A.
A1  - Dobrin, A.
SP  - 485
EP  - 493
VL  - 44
IS  - 5
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To provide a national description of suicide screening practices in juvenile residential facilities and to examine their association with whether facilities experience a suicide attempt. <br><br>METHOD: Multivariate modeling with data from the 2000 Juvenile Residential Facility Census (n=3690 facilities). <br><br>RESULTS: Controlling for facility characteristics, screening the entire facility population within the first 24 hours after arrival is significantly linked to lower odds of serious suicide attempts (odds ratio 0.23-0.65). Facilities screening just some of their population in a 2- to 7-day window after arrival exhibited significantly higher odds of serious suicide attempts (odds ratio 1.30-4.73). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that facility-level risks of serious suicide attempts may be reduced by screening every child and adolescent entering a juvenile justice facility within the 24-hour window directly following arrival, regardless of the facility size and whether the youths came directly from another facility within the system.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0890-8567
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.chi.0000156281.07858.52
ID  - ref1
ER  -