Suicidal Ideation Among Urban Nine and Ten Year Olds
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Little is known about rates and correlates of suicidal ideation among nonclinical samples of preadolescents from low-income urban backgrounds. Using the Children's Depression Inventory, we measured suicidal ideation in 131 preadolescent urban children (49% female, 90% African American/Caribbean) participating in an ongoing prospective longitudinal study of prenatal cocaine exposure and children's outcome. Suicidal ideation was reported by 14.5% of the children in this sample at 9 to 10 years of age. Children's reports of depressive symptoms, exposure to violence, and distress symptoms in response to witnessing violence were associated with suicidal ideation, but prenatal cocaine exposure, parent-rated child behavior, and caregivers' psychological distress symptoms were not. Suicidal ideation may be more prevalent among preadolescents from urban, low-income backgrounds than clinicians suspect, particularly among children exposed to violence.
Authors: CATHERINE C. O'LEARY, DEBORAH A. FRANK, WANDA GRANT-KNIGHT, MARJORIE BEEGHLY, MARILYN AUGUSTYN, RUTH ROSE-JACOBS, HOWARD J. CABRAL, KATHERINE GANNON
Institutions: Boston University, Northwestern University, Harvard University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse
OpenAlex ID: W2017034289