Completed Suicide in Children and Adolescents
Descriptive information on a large number of children and adolescents who had committed suicide was collected from medical examiners' records. A review of deaths of persons 19 and under from nonnatural causes identified 229 youth suicides. Characteristics of these youth were extracted from medi...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1988-11, Vol.27 (6), p.689-695 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Descriptive information on a large number of children and adolescents who had committed suicide was collected from medical examiners' records. A review of deaths of persons 19 and under from nonnatural causes identified 229 youth suicides. Characteristics of these youth were extracted from medical examiners' reports: no control groups were employed. Children and adolescents who committed suicide were most likely to be older males with a current psychiatric disorder, usually an affective disorder or alcohol or drug abuse. Suicides appeared to be impulsive and triggered by age-normative precipitants. Sex, age, and cohort differences are presented. Results are evaluated in light of previous research. |
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ISSN: | 0890-8567 1527-5418 |
DOI: | 10.1097/00004583-198811000-00004 |