title: Adolescent suicidality: who will ideate, who will act?
abstract: Responses to the 1999 Youth Risk Behavior Survey including suicide ideation, attempt, medically treated attempt, and six problem behaviors were analysed. Youth across the spectrum ideated. Overwhelmingly, the 17% of youth with more than three problem behaviors were the youth who acted; they accounted for 60% of medically treated suicidal acts. Compared to adolescents with zero problem behaviors, the odds of a medically treated suicide attempt were 2.3 times greater among respondents with one, 8.8 with two, 18.3 with three, 30.8 with four, 50.0 with five, and 227.3 with six. A count of problem behaviors offers a reliable way to identify suicide risk.
authors.affiliation: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD 20705-3102, USA. Miller@pire.org
authors.forename: Ted R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Dexter M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires