Purpose To determine whether, compared with age- and sex-matched controls who did not commit suicide, adolescents who committed suicide by firearms were more likely to have had household access to firearms (after adjusting for significant risk factors for adolescent...
Sixty-three adolescent suicide victims with a history of affective illness were compared to 23 adolescent community controls with a lifetime history of affective illness, using a case-control design. Suicide victims were more likely to have had major depression,...
The characteristics of adolescent suicide victims (n = 27) were compared with those of a group at high risk for suicide, suicidal psychiatric inpatients (n = 56) who had either seriously considered (n = 18) or actually attempted (n = 38) suicide. The suicide victims...
Objective To assess the association between firearms in the home and adolescent suicide. Research Design Matched, case-control. Setting Population-based community sample. Subjects Sixty-seven adolescent suicide victims and a demographically matched group of 67 living...
Objective To delineate the characteristics of adolescent suicide victims with no apparent psychiatric disorder. Method Seven adolescent suicide victims with no apparent disorder were compared with 60 suicide victims with definite or probable psychiatric disorder, and...
