… suicide attempts appear to be higher among GLB youths than heterosexual youths, but
completed suicide is comparable across GLB and heterosexual youths (McDaniel et al. 2001). …

… Importantly, many of those who complete suicide do not seek help. From our data, 88.5
percent of those who completed suicide had not sought help prior to the event, compared with …

… Each of these studies has contributed significantly to our understanding of youth suicide, yet
they all possess certain limitations. Several involve relatively small numbers of subjects and …

… completed suicides in children and early adolescents aged 14 years and younger, 2)
summarizes important information on suicide … In comparison, 90% of youth suicides aged up to 19 …

… The relationship has important worldwide implications for the development of programs to
prevent suicide among youth. The lack of understanding of the relationship of diagnosable …

… In closing, the results of this review suggest that youth at risk for completed suicide are
males who have either an affective disorder or alcohol or drug abuse in the context of familial …

… For the first time in youth, we report on suicides that make this distinction and share a number
that is more serious than previously believed, with 1 in 41 completed suicides occurring at …

… This chapter reviews three major sources of data that are used to derive the epidemiology
of completed suicide in children and adolescents-official mortality statistics, the psychological …

… all suicide deaths during the period under study. For this study, only those youth with a
completed suicide-… In this study population of children who completed suicide with a firearm, we …

… In this study, we confirmed most of our initial hypotheses about risk factors for suicide in
substanceabusing youth. As predicted, completers with probable or definite lifetime substance …