Risk Profiles for Suicide Attempts, Drug Use, and Violence among Dominican, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Non-Hispanic White Youth in New York City: Implications for Suicide Prevention Initiatives.
Our sample included New York City public high school students of Dominican, Mexican, and Puerto Rican descent as well as a White non-Hispanic reference population (N=3,951). We used latent class analysis and identified two subtypes of students that have a high likelihood for suicide attempts based u...
| Publicado en: | Centro Journal Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 82 - 105 |
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Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)
Spring2018
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| Sumario: | Our sample included New York City public high school students of Dominican, Mexican, and Puerto Rican descent as well as a White non-Hispanic reference population (N=3,951). We used latent class analysis and identified two subtypes of students that have a high likelihood for suicide attempts based upon their depressed mood and problem behaviors (e.g., substance use and violence): depressed-internalizing youth and high-problem-behavior youth. We found no differences between the Dominican, Mexican, and Puerto Rican students for these at-risk subtypes. However, Dominican, Mexican, and Puerto Rican students were disproportionately more likely to belong to these two subtypes than their White counterparts. |
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