title: [Relationships between social factors and suicidal attempts of adolescent girls].
abstract: This study presents a comparative analysis of family and school situation among adolescent girls, who attempted a suicide and those who did not. The control group was represented by normative sample of school girls of Lithuania. The results indicate that most of the attempters live in incomplete families, with step-father, step-sisters and step-brothers. The results showed that there were more conflicts within families of the attempters than within the other groups of the study. The girls, who completed a suicide attempt more often reported about arguing with their parents. They also appeared to brake the law more frequently and also they experienced abuse more often than girls in the control group. The attempters more frequently reported about financial difficulties of their families. Those girls also reported more problems at school such as truancy. The attempters also evaluated their academic achievements much lower than girls in the control group.
authors.affiliation: VU Socialines pediatrijos ir vaiku psichiatrijos klinika, Vytauto 15, 2004 Vilnius. riba@centras.lt
authors.forename: Virginija
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ribakoviene
authors.forename: Dainius
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pūras
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002649:Child Abuse; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011788:Quality of Life; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires