Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found that an increase in suicidal thoughts in adolescents appears to be associated with recent victimization, including by peers, a sexual assault, or other maltreatment.
Using data from the National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence, researchers found that about 4 percent of the 1,186 people captured in the survey reported having suicidal thoughts in the month preceding their respective interviews. Youths in the survey were ages 10 to 17.
In the study, published online this week in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, adolescents who had been victimized by peers were more than twice as likely to contemplate suicide than peers. Sexual assault increased these thoughts by more than ...
