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

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

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.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 37, No. 4, 285-292 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/002076409103700408
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