Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 41-52 , January 2008

Suicide Ideation, Plan, and Attempt in the Mexican Adolescent Mental Health Survey

,Accepted 25 July 2007.

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 This work was made possible by support from American Foundation for Suicide Prevention-Standard Research Grant (to G.B.). The Mexican Adolescent Mental Health Survey was supported by CONACYT and SEP (grant no. CONACYT-SEP-SSEDF-2003-CO1–22 ) and by the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz (DIES- 4845). This survey was carried out in conjunction with the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative. These activities were supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH070884), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Pfizer Foundation, the US Public Health Service (R13-MH066849, R01-MH069864, and R01 DA016558), the Fogarty International Center (FIRCA R01-TW006481), the Pan American Health Organization, Eli Lilly & Co., Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, GlaxoSmith Kline, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

 Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(09)62083-9

doi: 10.1097/chi.0b013e31815896ad

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 41-52 , January 2008

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