Are Mexican American adolescents at greater risk of suicidal behaviors?

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-21

  Roberts, Robert E ^a   Roberts, Catherine Ramsay ^b   Xing, Yun ^c  

^a Dept of Epidemiology Biostatistics   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247399963     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2007.37.1.10     Document Type: Article

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