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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...

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Published in:Centro Journal Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 82 - 105
Main Authors: PEÑA, JUAN B., KUERBIS, ALEXIS, LEE, RUFINA, HERMAN, DANIEL
Format: Article
Published: Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) Spring2018
Subjects:
Suicide prevention
Drug abuse
Violence
Suicide risk factors
Dominican Americans
Puerto Ricans
White people
Depression in adolescence
New York (N.Y.)
United States
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.