Adolescent Risk-Takers: a Trauma Center Study of Suicide Attempters and Drivers

I.R.H. Rockett, A. Spirito, G.K. Fritz, S. Riggs and A. Bond
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I.R.H. Rockett: Department of Health, Leisure, and Safety, University of Tennessee, 1914 Andy Holt Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996-2700 USA
A. Spirito: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
G.K. Fritz: Brown University
S. Riggs: Brown University
A. Bond: Brown University

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1991, vol. 37, issue 4, 285-292

Abstract: Adolescence is a developmental stage characterized by excessive risk-taking behavior that produces adverse health effects, typically in the form of injury. At issue is whether adolescent suicide attempters and injured adolescent motor vehicle drivers constitute a common risk group and are differentiated by the response of the emergency medical care system and by case disposition. Data originated in the medical records of a Rhode Island (USA) trauma center. The two study groups were not distinguished by religious preference, socioeconomic status or timing of the injury incident, but differed significantly by gender, race, emergency vehicle use, hospital admission rates, and seasonal injury patterns. Alcohol and drug involve ment was examined, but serious data deficiencies were noted.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1177/002076409103700408

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