Immigration, suicidal ideation and deliberate self-injury in the Boston Youth Survey 2006

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 193-202

  Borges, Guilherme ^a   Azrael, Deborah ^b   Almeida, Joanna ^d   Johnson, Renee M ^c   Molnar, Beth E ^b   Hemenway, David ^b   Miller, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA   (Mexico)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; BOSTON; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREJUDICE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953834018     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1943-278X.2010.00016.x     Document Type: Article

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