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The Association Between Racial Discrimination and Suicidality among African-American Adolescents and Young Adults.
- Source :
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Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research [Arch Suicide Res] 2017 Oct-Dec; Vol. 22 (4), pp. 584-595. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Jan 24. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This study assessed the association between racial discrimination and suicidality (ideation, plan, or attempt) in African-American adolescents and young adults (n = 806, mean age = 17.9 years). Structured psychiatric phone interviews were conducted in offspring and their mothers in a high-risk alcoholism family study. Logistic regression analyses using offspring's own racial discrimination as a predictor revealed elevated odds of suicidality, even after adjusting for correlated psychiatric conditions (OR = 1.76) but was reduced to non-significance after adjusting for maternal experiences of racial discrimination (OR = 3.19 in males), depression, and problem drinking. Findings support a link between racial discrimination and suicidality in African-American youth that, for males, is partially explained by maternal racial discrimination.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Black or African American psychology
Alcoholism epidemiology
Depression diagnosis
Depression psychology
Family Health
Female
Humans
Interview, Psychological
Interviews as Topic
Male
Risk Assessment methods
Risk Factors
United States epidemiology
Young Adult
Mothers psychology
Racism ethnology
Racism prevention & control
Racism psychology
Racism statistics & numerical data
Suicide ethnology
Suicide psychology
Suicide statistics & numerical data
Suicide Prevention
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1543-6136
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 29120269
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2017.1387207