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Ontario Child Health Study: suicidal behavior in youth age 12-16 years
R T Joffe1, D R Offord, M H Boyle
1Department of Psychiatry, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont., Canada.
The American Journal of Psychiatry
|November 1, 1988
Abstract:
The authors report on the prevalence and correlates of suicidal behavior in youth age 12-16 years. The data, from a community prevalence survey, show that 5%-10% of the male and 10%-20% of the female youth reported suicidal behavior within a 6-month period. Suicidal behavior in youth appeared to be related to psychiatric disorder in general as well as to family dysfunction and parental arrest.