Correlates of Suicidal Behaviors Among Asian Americans
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Correlates of suicidal behaviors among Asian American outpatient youths.
Medical record abstraction was conducted at an ethnic-specific mental health outpatient clinic to identify correlates of suicidal behaviors in a sample of 285 Asian American youths. Some risk factors, such as parent-child conflict and age, which have been associated with suicidality in majority group youths, predicted suicidality in this sample, whereas other risk factors, such as gender, did n...
متن کاملPerceived environmental physical activity correlates among Asian Pacific Islander Americans.
BACKGROUND Little is known about correlates of physical activity of Asian and Asian-Pacific Islander Americans (AAPI). Knowledge of these correlates could be useful in promoting physical activity. PURPOSE to identify demographic and environmental correlates of physical activity among AAPI. METHODS Participants resided in the Las Vegas, Nevada area, and completed a 52-item telephone administ...
متن کاملRisk factors for suicidal behaviors among Filipino Americans: a data mining approach.
Filipino Americans have lower suicide rates than other Asian ethnic groups. The present study examined risk factors for suicide ideation and attempt among Filipino Americans with random forest. The data were from the Filipino American Community Epidemiological Study (Takeuchi, 2011). The results showed that the important predictors for suicide ideation were depressive disorder, substance use di...
متن کاملDepression among Asian Americans: Review and Recommendations
This article presents a review of the prevalence and manifestation of depression among Asian Americans and discusses some of the existing issues in the assessment and diagnosis of depression among Asian Americans. The authors point out the diversity and increasing numbers of Asian Americans and the need to provide better mental health services for this population. While the prevalence of depres...
متن کاملDepression and emotional reactivity: variation among Asian Americans of East Asian descent and European Americans.
Studies of Western samples (e.g., European Americans [EAs]) suggest that depressed individuals tend to show diminished emotional reactivity (J. G. Gehricke & A. J. Fridlund, 2002; G. E. Schwartz, P. L. Fair, P. Salt, M. R. Mandel, & G. L. Klerman, 1976a, 1976b). Do these findings generalize to individuals oriented to other cultures (e.g., East Asian cultures)? The authors compared the emotional...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Suicide Research
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1381-1118
DOI: 10.1080/13811110903044567