Psychiatric diagnosis in child and adolescent suicide.

@article{Shaffer1996PsychiatricDI,
  title={Psychiatric diagnosis in child and adolescent suicide.},
  author={David Shaffer and Madelyn S Gould and Prudence W. Fisher and Paul D. Trautman and Delphine Moreau and Marjorie Kleinman and Michael Flory},
  journal={Archives of general psychiatry},
  year={1996},
  volume={53 4},
  pages={
          339-48
        }
}
BACKGROUND The age, sex, and ethnic distribution of adolescents who commit suicide is significantly different from that of the general population. The present study was designed to examine psychiatric risk factors and the relationship between them and demographic variables. METHODS A case-control, psychologic autopsy study of 120 of 170 consecutive subjects (age, <20 years) who committed suicide and 147 community age-, sex-, and ethnic-matched control subjects who had lived in the Greater New… 
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