Year: 2002 Source: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, v.32, no.3, (Fall 2002), p.301-312 SIEC No: 20031307

The objective of this research was to test substance-related & non-substance-related psychiatric disorders as predictors of attempted suicide among adolescents. 96 psychiatrically disordered suicide attempters were matched one-to-one to 96 psychiatrically disordered non-attempters on age, ethnicity, gender, & the presence/absence of major depression. Conditional logistic regression was used to test psychiatric risk factors for their power to predict attempted suicide among adolescents. Findings are discussed. (44 refs)