Abstract
Correlates of Suicide Attempts in an Open Cohort of Young men who Have sex With men
Botnick M R~~Heath K V~~et al
The authors investigated baseline sociodemographic, psychosocial, & behaviour correlates of attempted suicide in a large open cohort of young gay & bisexual men. Of 345 subjects, 150 (43.5%) reported that they had ever considered suicide & 67 (19.4%) that they had attempted suicide at least once. The authors found that the use of nitrite inhalants, social support scores below the 75th percentile of all scores, & low or moderate self-esteem were independently associated with elevated risk of attempted suicide. (17 refs)