Online Racial Discrimination, Suicidal Ideation, and Traumatic Stress in a National Sample of Black Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Because of increased suicide rates among Black youth in the past 2 decades, there is a dire need for research on suicidal ideation and risk factors in this population.

Objective

To examine the direct and indirect associations between online racial discrimination and suicidal ideation through posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among Black adolescents living in the US, with consideration of potential differential associations by gender and age.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used data drawn from the first wave of the National Survey of Critical Digital Literacy. Black adolescents aged 11 to 19 years were selected from a nationally representative probability-based sample. Data were collected from October 2020 to December 2020

SUBMITTER: Tynes BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10765309 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature