Association of Self-Reported Discrimination and Suicide Ideation in Older Chinese Americans.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examines racial discrimination as a potential novel risk factor for suicide ideation among older Chinese Americans.

Design

In a cross-sectional analysis, this study drew on data collected in the Population-based Study of Chinese Elderly in Chicago on Chinese older adults age 60 + in the Greater Chicago area (N = 3,157). Thirty-day suicide ideation was a dichotomous variable, derived from items of the Physical Health Questionnaire and the Geriatric Mental State Examination-Version A. Self-reported discrimination was dichotomously coded, based on the Experiences of Discrimination instrument, which asks respondents whether they have ever experienced discrimination in nine situations because of their race/ethnicity/color.

Results

About 4.1% of the sam

SUBMITTER: Li LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5725252 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature