TY - JOUR
T1 - Suicidal ideation in American Indian/Alaska native and white adolescents
T2 - The role of social isolation, exposure to suicide, and overweight
AU - Zamora-Kapoor, Anna
AU - Nelson, Lonnie A.
AU - Barbosa-Leiker, Celestina
AU - Comtois, Katherine A.
AU - Walker, Leslie R.
AU - Buchwald, Dedra S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Social isolation, exposure to suicide, and overweight increase suicidal ideation in adolescents, but no study to date has examined their relative significance in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth. Generalized estimating equations and path analyses were used to measure the significance and mediation of these variables in the suicidal ideation of 721 AI/ANs and 12,107 White adolescents. Social isolation, exposure to suicide, and overweight were risk factors for suicidal ideation in both races, and the associations among the variables of interest and suicidal ideation varied by race. Interventionists need to consider race in the prevention of suicidal ideation in AI/AN and White youth.
AB - Social isolation, exposure to suicide, and overweight increase suicidal ideation in adolescents, but no study to date has examined their relative significance in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth. Generalized estimating equations and path analyses were used to measure the significance and mediation of these variables in the suicidal ideation of 721 AI/ANs and 12,107 White adolescents. Social isolation, exposure to suicide, and overweight were risk factors for suicidal ideation in both races, and the associations among the variables of interest and suicidal ideation varied by race. Interventionists need to consider race in the prevention of suicidal ideation in AI/AN and White youth.
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U2 - 10.5820/aian.2304.2016.86
DO - 10.5820/aian.2304.2016.86
M3 - Article
C2 - 27536899
AN - SCOPUS:84984820092
SN - 0893-5394
VL - 23
SP - 86
EP - 100
JO - American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
JF - American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
IS - 4
ER -
