Self-Harm and Suicidality in US College Students: Associations with Emotional Exhaustion versus Multiple Psychiatric Symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study aimed at describing self-harm and suicidality (SHS) in relation to unobserved heterogeneous groups of college students based on their psychiatric symptoms. SHS of each latent class were examined by race/ethnicity to inform risk factors relevant to subgroups of U.S. college population.

Methods

The participants (N = 42,779) were drawn from the Spring 2017 American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment II (ACHA-NCHA II) Reference Group. Latent class analysis (LCA) was conducted based on participants' reports of past-year psychiatric symptoms. The reported SHS were examined by the latent class of students and their race/ethnicity.

Results

LCA identified two latent classes: The Emotional Exhaustion (EE) class and the Multiple Psyc

SUBMITTER: Lin HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7799391 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature