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 from among those reported to have attempted suicide in the 1988–1989 school year. Data were derived from a questionnaire completed by the school counselors of the attempters and of an equal number of randomly selected Latino nonattempters. Most of the attempters were teenage girls who had used an ingestion method and who previously had thought of threatened, or attempted suicide. They had experienced significantly more family, school, psychiatric, and migration and acculturation problems than did the nonattempters. Implications for research, suicide prevention, and intervention are discussed.
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