Authors: Pettingell SL, Bearinger LH, Skay CL, Resnick MD, Potthoff SJ, Eichhorn J.

Publication Year: 2008

Last Updated: 2015-10-13 

Journal: American Journal of Health Behavior

Keywords: Urban American Indians, Alaska Natives, Indian youth, suicide, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, Indian Youth Resiliency Impact Study, Urban Indian Youth Health Survey

Abstract:

The impact of suicidal behavior, whether coping with depression and ideation or losing a friend, classmate, or family member, permeates all aspects of a young person's experience and can alter a life trajectory. Suicide, defined as an intentional injury resulting in death, has been and continues to be one of the nation's most urgent health problems for young people, particularly indigenous people in the United States. In 2002, among 10- to 14-year-old American Indian and Alaska Native young people, suicide was the 4th leading cause of death and 2nd among 15- to 19-yearolds. For all age-groups of American Indians/Alaska Natives, it is the 8th leading cause of death as compared to 11th across all racial/ethnic groups in the United States.

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Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18241131/