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More than half a million California adults seriously thought about suicide in the past year.

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: In 2009, nearly 2.4 million adults in California reported having seriously thought about suicide during their lifetimes. Among these adults, more than half a million had thought seriously about suicide sometime during the past year. Members of sexual minorities were almost three times as likely as all adults in California to have had suicidal thoughts during the past year. This policy brief, based on data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), presents a comprehensive overview of risk factors associated with suicidal thoughts among adults ages 18 and older and highlights differences in suicidal ideation among demographic groups and geographic regions in California.

Source: PubMed

Authors: David Grant, Julia Caldwell, D Imelda Padilla-Frausto, May Aydin, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola

Institution: University of California, Los Angeles

Language: English

Topic: Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W195403140

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Cites: 9

Cited by: 2

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