title: Youth suicide in Canada: distinctions among boys and girls.
abstract: In Canada, boys account for almost three quarters of suicides among those aged 15-24 years. However, non-fatal suicide-related behaviours also onset in youth but are more common in girls. Thus far, there has been little empirical investigation of what produces this gender paradox. This report summarizes two recently published studies in which ICES tackles the issues of the potential impacts of misclassification of suicide and of help-seeking behaviour.
authors.affiliation: Anne Rhodes, PhD, is a scientist in the Suicide Studies Research Unit at St. Michael's Hospital and an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), both in Toronto, Ontario. She is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Rhodes leads work nationally and provincially on suicide prevention, and has numerous grants and publications in the area of suicide and suicidal behaviour. She successfully held a Career Scientist Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. She can be reached at anne.rhodes@ices.on.ca.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rhodes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009864:Ontario; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D012737:Sex Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000145:classification / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult; D000092864:Suicide Prevention