Preliminary Reporting Patterns of Suicide Ideation and Attempt Among Native American Adolescents in Two Samples.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Native American adolescents are disproportionately burdened by suicidality. Here, we examine patterns of reporting of suicide ideation and suicide attempt among Native American youth compared to those from other ethnoracial backgrounds, as this data is important for grounding commonly subscribed to frameworks of suicide risk (e.g., ideation-to-action).

Method

Data are from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (N = 54,243; grades 9-12; 51.0% female) and Minnesota Student Survey (N = 335,151; grades 8, 9, 11; 50.7% female). Comparing Native American youth to peers from other ethnoracial backgrounds, we examined two suicide reporting patterns: 1) odds of reporting suicide attempt among those who reported ideation and 2) odds of reporting suicide i

SUBMITTER: Wiglesworth A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10721721 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature