@article{ref1,
title="Suicidal Ideation Among Urban Nine and Ten Year Olds",
journal="Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics",
year="2006",
author="O'leary, Catina C. and Frank, Deborah A. and Grant-Knight, Wanda and Beeghly, M. and Augustyn, Marilyn and Rose-Jacobs, Ruth and Cabral, Howard J. and Gannon, Katherine",
volume="27",
number="1",
pages="33-39",
abstract="ABSTRACT.: Little is known about rates and correlates of suicidal ideation among nonclinical samples of preadolescents from low-income urban backgrounds. Using the Children's Depression Inventory, we measured suicidal ideation in 131 preadolescent urban children (49% female, 90% African American/Caribbean) participating in an ongoing prospective longitudinal study of prenatal cocaine exposure and children's outcome. Suicidal ideation was reported by 14.5% of the children in this sample at 9 to 10 years of age. Children's reports of depressive symptoms, exposure to violence, and distress symptoms in response to witnessing violence were associated with suicidal ideation, but prenatal cocaine exposure, parent-rated child behavior, and caregivers' psychological distress symptoms were not. Suicidal ideation may be more prevalent among preadolescents from urban, low-income backgrounds than clinicians suspect, particularly among children exposed to violence.",
language="",
issn="0196-206X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}