title: Profile of a metropolitan North American immigrant suicidal adolescent population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Canadian immigrant adolescents have a lower suicide rate than their nonimmigrant peers. We conducted a hypothesis-generating analysis to determine whether this lower rate correlated with level of drug use and (or) with diagnostic and demographic characteristics of Canadian immigrant adolescents presenting to an emergency room for crisis assessment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Known risk factors for suicide were compared among immigrant youth, North American youth, and a culturally mixed group of youth at baseline and at 6-month follow-up.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The immigrant group was only differentiated by a lower rate of reported drug use.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The lower rate of reported drug use at the time of crisis may contribute to the lower suicide rate among immigrants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. brian.greenfield@muhc.mcgill.ca
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Greenfield
authors.forename: Cécile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rousseau
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Slatkoff
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lewkowski
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Sébastien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dube
authors.forename: Myrna E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Lashley
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Morin
authors.forename: Patti
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dray
authors.forename: Bonnie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Harnden
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D002648:Child; D003710:Demography; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012307:Risk Factors; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*