Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 17, Number 5, 1 May 2000 — Suicide statistic [ARTICLE]

Suicide statistic

According to an article in the March issue of the Journal ofthe American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Native Hawaiian teenagers are at greater risk of attempted suicide than non-Hawaiian young people. The authors of "Cultural Identification and Attempted Suicide in Native Hawaiian Adolescents " based this eonelusion on a survey of more than 3,000 high school students. They also concluded that cultural affiliation rather than ethnicity is a risk factor. Reprints of this article ean be obtained ffom the lead author, Dr. Noelle Yuen of the Department of Psychiatry of the John A. Burns School of Medicine, whose email address is yuenn@jabson.biomed.hawaii.edu. ■