TY - JOUR
T1 - The Association Between Racial Discrimination and Suicidality among African-American Adolescents and Young Adults
AU - Arshanapally, Suraj
AU - Werner, Kimberly B.
AU - Sartor, Carolyn E.
AU - Bucholz, Kathleen K.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [Grant Number R01 AA023549, RO1 AAO12640] and National Institute on Drug Abuse [Grant Number T32 DA15035].
Funding Information:
We would also like to acknowledge that this work was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) grants RO1 AAO12640 and R01 AA023549 and by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) grant T32 DA15035. In addition, this publication was supported by the 2016 Summer Research Program of the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis funded by the Global Health Center at the Institute for Public Health, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Charitable Giving Program and Children’s Discovery Institute of Washington University and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Copyright © International Academy for Suicide Research.
PY - 2018/10/2
Y1 - 2018/10/2
N2 - This study assessed the association between racial discrimination and suicidality (ideation, plan, or attempt) in African-American adolescents and young adults (n = 806, mean age = 17.9 years). Structured psychiatric phone interviews were conducted in offspring and their mothers in a high-risk alcoholism family study. Logistic regression analyses using offspring’s own racial discrimination as a predictor revealed elevated odds of suicidality, even after adjusting for correlated psychiatric conditions (OR = 1.76) but was reduced to non-significance after adjusting for maternal experiences of racial discrimination (OR = 3.19 in males), depression, and problem drinking. Findings support a link between racial discrimination and suicidality in African-American youth that, for males, is partially explained by maternal racial discrimination.
AB - This study assessed the association between racial discrimination and suicidality (ideation, plan, or attempt) in African-American adolescents and young adults (n = 806, mean age = 17.9 years). Structured psychiatric phone interviews were conducted in offspring and their mothers in a high-risk alcoholism family study. Logistic regression analyses using offspring’s own racial discrimination as a predictor revealed elevated odds of suicidality, even after adjusting for correlated psychiatric conditions (OR = 1.76) but was reduced to non-significance after adjusting for maternal experiences of racial discrimination (OR = 3.19 in males), depression, and problem drinking. Findings support a link between racial discrimination and suicidality in African-American youth that, for males, is partially explained by maternal racial discrimination.
KW - African-Americans
KW - adolescents
KW - racial discrimination
KW - suicidality
KW - young adults
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85053017146&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13811118.2017.1387207
DO - 10.1080/13811118.2017.1387207
M3 - Article
C2 - 29120269
AN - SCOPUS:85053017146
SN - 1381-1118
VL - 22
SP - 584
EP - 595
JO - Archives of Suicide Research
JF - Archives of Suicide Research
IS - 4
ER -