title: Psychiatric diagnoses in minority female adolescent suicide attempters.
abstract: Psychiatric diagnoses were examined using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Aged Children semistructured interview among three groups of minority adolescent females aged 12 to 17:61 suicide attempters, 31 psychiatrically disturbed nonattempters, and 23 nonattempting, nondisturbed girls. Major or minor depressive disorder was found in 42% of the suicide attempters; conduct disorder in 46%; multiple diagnoses in 38%, no diagnosis in 13%. These rates were very similar to those found in disturbed nonattempters. Only one symptom, suicidal ideation, distinguished attempters from disturbed nonattempters, while many symptoms distinguished these two groups from nondisturbed nonattempters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY.
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Trautman
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rotheram-Borus
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dopkins
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lewin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D009519:New York City / Q000453:epidemiology; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012307:Risk Factors; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data