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Suicidal Behaviors of Asian American Youths

In Lau, Jernewall, Zane, & Myers (2002), the researchers provide the findings of a research study that identified correlates of suicidal behaviors among Asian American youths admitted at an outpatient clinic. The researchers relied on medical records of ôethnic-specific mental health outpatientsö to define correlates of suicidal behaviors, (Lau, et al., 2002, p. 199). The sample population consisted of 285 Asian-American youths, ranging in age from 4 to 17 years. The study considered one of the most at-risk factors for suicide among the population to be parent-child conflict and age. Degree of cultural assimilation also was correlated to suicide ideation and suicide attempts in Asian-American youths in the study. The study concludes that its results demonstrate the significance of culture and environment in increasing stressors that increase the potential for psychopathology in Asian Americans, including risk of suicide. The study provides credible research to support its findings and offers a number of measures for added reliability and validity. However, the study maintains that such factors are specific to Asian Americans. More studies are needed that explore correlates of suicidal behaviors among other ethnic youth populations, including a more narrow age-range grouping among the sample population.

The purpose of Lau, Jernewall, Zane, and MyersÆ (2002) study, Correlates of Suicidal Behaviors Among Asian American Outpatient Youths, is to provide the correlates of suicide in an ethnic-specific population. The study is designed to help provide ôculturally relevant information on risk of suicidality,ö (Lau, et al., 2002, p. 200). The sample population consisted of 285 Asian American mental health outpatient youths, ages 4 to 17. The researcherÆs methodology is readily repeatable, and included abstraction of medical records of the sample population. Results were tabulated th

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