Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 32-40 , January 2008

Suicide Attempt Characteristics, Diagnoses, and Future Attempts: Comparing Multiple Attempters to Single Attempters and Ideators

,Accepted 13 August 2007.

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 Statistical analyses were conducted by Regina Miranda, Ph.D., with consultation from J. Blake Turner, Ph.D.

 Portions of this article were presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, San Diego, October 24-29, 2006.

 This work was funded by grant R49/CCR 202598 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , NIMH grants P30 MH 43878 and ST32MH-16434 , and grants from the American Mental Health Foundation and the Carmel Hill Fund at Columbia University. The authors thank Madelyn Gould, Matthew Nock, Mark Olfson, J. Blake Turner, and Eva De Jaegere for comments on previous versions of this manuscript.

 Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

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doi: 10.1097/chi.0b013e31815a56cb

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 32-40 , January 2008

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