Interpersonal violence and suicide risk: Examining buffering effects of school and community connectedness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exposure to interpersonal violence is associated with elevated suicide risk. Preventing suicide among high-risk adolescents is most often discussed from a clinical treatment perspective, resulting in a gap in research examining whether school and community connectedness can buffer the relationships between forms of interpersonal violence and suicide risk in clinical samples of adolescents.

Methods

Baseline data from 294 adolescents who received substance use treatment were analyzed to help fill this gap in research. Adolescents in this sample were at greater risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors given their histories of substance use disorders and high rates of interpersonal violence, with 57% reporting experiencing at least one form of abuse/violence. Independ

SUBMITTER: Berny LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10871710 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature