Why Adolescent Latinas Attempt Suicide More than Other Females

为什么拉丁裔青少年比其他女性更容易自杀

• 批准号: 9432389
• 负责人: Lauren E. Gulbas
• 金额: $ 22.44万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-25 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9432389
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Adolescent Risk Behavior; Adult; Affect; African American; American; Caregivers; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Comparative Study; Conflict (Psychology); Data; Daughter; Development; Elements; Emotional; Ethnic group; Family; Family dynamics; Female; Female Adolescents; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Health Policy; Hispanics; Individual; Interview; Knowledge; Latina; Latino; Life; Light; Literature; Measurement; Medical; Mental Health; Methods; Mothers; Not Hispanic or Latino; Parents; Pattern; Predisposition; Preventive Intervention; Published Comment; Qualitative Methods; Qualitative Research; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Seminal; Shapes; Suicide; Suicide attempt; Suicide prevention; Surveys; System; Teenagers; Thinking; Time; United States National Institutes of Health; Variant; caucasian American; disparity reduction; effective intervention; ethnographic method; experience; family influence; girls; intervention program; life history; peer; psychologic; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; racial and ethnic disparities; suicidal; suicidal behavior; suicide attempter; teenage mother

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The disparities in suicidal behavior among American teenagers, particularly girls, have been documented now for over two decades. Since 1991, CDC surveys consistently show that adolescent Latinas attempt suicide at rates much higher than any other group of American adolescents. Even with three decades of surveys, no studies have systematically compared Latinas to other girls in order to understand the reasons Latinas’ propensity to suicidal behavior. While family dynamics often account for the suicide attempts of adolescents, we do not know what the qualitative differences in Hispanic family dynamics that influence daughters to attempt suicide more than peers. What, if any, are the substantive differences with non-Hispanic peers? The overarching goal of this developmental/exploratory application is to deepen knowledge of the higher likelihood of Latinas toward suicide attempts (SAs) in contrast to non-Hispanic peers. We will examine the influence of family dynamics on suicidal behavior among Latinas, and contrast the reports of Latinas with those of non-Latina attempters. This study examines intensively family functioning of female suicide attempters of Latino, non-Hispanic White, and African American cultural heritage using in-depth interviews with the girls and the primary female caregiver. Twenty adolescent-caregiver dyads in racial/ethnic groups will be recruited to address two aims: (1) explore the psychological vulnerability of teenage suicide attempters in three racial/ethnic groups and the life contexts that influenced suicidal behaviors. Data on individual susceptibility, viz., emotional vulnerability, family factors, and life context, that girls in each racial/ethnic group indicate influenced the suicide attempts, including thoughts, meanings, and interpretations will generate testable hypotheses about underlying reasons that increase Latina teens’ propensity to suicidal behaviors and why they choose this action; and (2) describe the life histories and trajectories of family dynamics that influenced the attempt for each racial/ethnic group. We will seek answers to such questions as, What are family-adolescent dynamics that shaped the suicidal behavior for each group? To what extent do Latinas’ and caregivers’ histories and trajectories differ from those of the two other racial/ethnic groups? This aim identifies variations in patterns of family dynamics and sociocultural elements that reveal differences in manifestations of suicide attempts across racial/ethnic groups. Achieving these two aims via this mechanism can set the stage for a larger study and inform preventive and intervention programs.

项目总结/摘要 美国青少年，特别是女孩，自杀行为的差异现在已经被记录在案 二十多年了自1991年以来，CDC的调查一直显示，青少年拉丁裔企图自杀， 比其他任何美国青少年群体都要高。即使有三十年的调查，没有 研究系统地将拉丁裔与其他女孩进行了比较，以了解拉丁裔女孩的原因 自杀倾向虽然家庭动力学往往是青少年自杀企图的原因， 我们不知道西班牙裔家庭动力学的质的差异是什么，影响了女儿， 比同龄人更容易自杀。与非西班牙裔同龄人的实质性差异是什么？ 这种发展/探索性应用程序的首要目标是加深对更高层次的知识， 与非西班牙裔同龄人相比，拉丁裔人自杀企图（SA）的可能性。我们会研究 家庭动力学对拉丁美洲人自杀行为的影响，并将拉丁美洲人的报告与那些 非拉丁裔移民本研究深入探讨了女性自杀者的家庭功能， 拉丁裔，非西班牙裔白色，和非洲裔美国人的文化遗产，使用深入采访的女孩和 主要的女性照顾者。将招募20个种族/族裔群体中的志愿者-护理者二人组， 目的有二：（1）探讨青少年自杀者的心理脆弱性， 种族/民族群体和影响自杀行为的生活环境。个体易感性数据， 也就是，每个种族/族裔群体中的女孩表明， 影响自杀企图，包括思想，意义和解释将产生可测试的 关于增加拉丁裔青少年自杀行为倾向的潜在原因以及为什么他们 选择这一行动;（2）描述生活史和轨迹的家庭动力学，影响了 每个种族/民族的尝试。我们将寻求这样的问题的答案，什么是家庭-青少年 影响每个群体自杀行为的因素拉丁裔“和护理人员”在多大程度上 历史和轨迹与其他两个种族/民族群体不同？这一目标确定了 揭示自杀表现差异的家庭动力模式和社会文化因素 跨种族/民族群体的尝试。通过这一机制实现这两个目标， 更大规模的研究，并为预防和干预方案提供信息。