Greenfield Brian, Rousseau Cécile, Slatkoff Joshua, Lewkowski Maxime, Davis Michael, Dube Sébastien, Lashley Myrna E, Morin Isabelle, Dray Patti, Harnden Bonnie
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Can J Psychiatry. 2006 Mar;51(3):155-9. doi: 10.1177/070674370605100305.
Canadian immigrant adolescents have a lower suicide rate than their nonimmigrant peers. We conducted a hypothesis-generating analysis to determine whether this lower rate correlated with level of drug use and (or) with diagnostic and demographic characteristics of Canadian immigrant adolescents presenting to an emergency room for crisis assessment.
Known risk factors for suicide were compared among immigrant youth, North American youth, and a culturally mixed group of youth at baseline and at 6-month follow-up.
The immigrant group was only differentiated by a lower rate of reported drug use.
The lower rate of reported drug use at the time of crisis may contribute to the lower suicide rate among immigrants.
加拿大移民青少年的自杀率低于非移民同龄人。我们进行了一项假设生成分析，以确定这种较低的自杀率是否与药物使用水平以及（或者）前往急诊室进行危机评估的加拿大移民青少年的诊断和人口统计学特征相关。
在基线和6个月随访时，比较了移民青年、北美青年以及文化背景混合的青年群体中已知的自杀风险因素。
移民群体仅因报告的药物使用率较低而有所不同。
危机发生时报告的药物使用率较低可能是移民自杀率较低的原因。
