title: Suicidal Plans and Attempts Among Adolescents in Mongolia.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although 75% of suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries, few studies have examined suicidal behaviors among young people in these countries.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to examine what individual characteristics were associated with suicidal plans and attempts among Mongolian youth and whether suicidal risks and behaviors varied by urban and rural locations.
  
  
  METHODS
  Logistic regression analyses were utilized to investigate suicidal plans and attempts among 5,393 adolescents using the Global Student Health Survey - 2013.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Adolescents who lived in urban areas were at higher risk for suicidal plans and behaviors than those who lived in rural areas; however, the patterns of suicidal risks were similar. Specifically, individual characteristics, such as being female, feeling lonely and worried, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and having fights at school, were associated with suicidal plans and behaviors regardless of the residential places.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A number of important variables have not been included in the questionnaire such as depression, family and parental support, household income, family constructs etc.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Given the comparable patterns of risk between urban and rural adolescents and the relatively high rates of suicidal plans and attempts, similar mental health services and interventions are necessitated for both urban and rural areas.
authors.affiliation: 1 Global Mental Health Fellowship Program, Department of Psychiatry Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Sarantsetseg
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Davaasambuu
authors.affiliation: 2 Public Health Institute, Ministry of Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
authors.forename: Suvd
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Batbaatar
authors.affiliation: 3 School of Social Work, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Witte
authors.affiliation: 1 Global Mental Health Fellowship Program, Department of Psychiatry Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Phillip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hamid
authors.affiliation: 1 Global Mental Health Fellowship Program, Department of Psychiatry Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.|4 Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology Division, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA.|5 Departments of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Maria A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Oquendo
authors.affiliation: 6 Epidemiology of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Marjorie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kleinman
authors.affiliation: 6 Epidemiology of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Olivares
authors.affiliation: 6 Epidemiology of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Madelyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gould
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008132:Loneliness / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008986:Mongolia / Q000453:epidemiology; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012737:Sex Factors; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: Mongolia; adolescents; attempts; plans; suicide