title: More than half a million California adults seriously thought about suicide in the past year.
abstract: In 2009, nearly 2.4 million adults in California reported having seriously thought about suicide during their lifetimes. Among these adults, more than half a million had thought seriously about suicide sometime during the past year. Members of sexual minorities were almost three times as likely as all adults in California to have had suicidal thoughts during the past year. This policy brief, based on data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), presents a comprehensive overview of risk factors associated with suicidal thoughts among adults ages 18 and older and highlights differences in suicidal ideation among demographic groups and geographic regions in California.
authors.affiliation: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grant
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Caldwell
authors.forename: D Imelda
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Padilla-Frausto
authors.forename: May
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aydin
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aguilar-Gaxiola
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000413:Alaska; D002140:California; D003710:Demography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology; D004930:Inuit / Q000523:psychology; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention