Original articleExamining Gender Differences in Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts Made 1 and 7 Years Later in a Nationally Representative Sample
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Sample and procedures
We used data from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health [32]. The survey used a multistage stratified cluster design to sample public and private high schools in the United States. Criteria for a high school's eligibility included having a minimum of 30 students and an 11th grade. Of the 26,666 eligible high schools, a stratified random sample of 80 high schools was selected. Schools were stratified by region, urbanicity, type of school, and percentage of white students. For each
Wave 2
Results from the bivariate models indicated that most of the individual-level risk factors were significantly related to suicide attempt status 1 year later (Table 2). Specifically, being female, younger age, depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, somatic symptoms, physical disability, lower self-esteem, alcohol misuse, marijuana use, and delinquency were associated with increased odds of an adolescent making a suicide attempt one year later. Among the relationship-level risk factors, having a
Conclusion
Study findings corroborate with much of the previously conducted research in showing that the odds of attempting suicide are increased in the presence of certain individual, relationship, and environmental risk factors. Our results contribute to the published literature by elucidating factors that prospectively predict suicidal behavior both 1 and 7 years later and by accounting for potentially confounding variables. In addition, using data from a nationally representative sample we were able
Acknowledgments
This research was supported by a grant from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, awarded to the first author. This research uses data from Add Health, a program project designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris, and funded by a grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 17 other agencies. Special acknowledgment is due to Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara
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