Seventy-seven patients of Puerto Rican origin who had attempted suicide
and were admitted to the inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital
were administered the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia
(SADS), selected items of the Life Crisis Inventory, and the Beck
Depression Inventory. Their scores on the SADS medical lethality and
suicidal intent scales were in the minimal range, and their Beck inventory
scores were in the mild range. Logistic regression analyses showed that
alcohol and other substance abuse was a significant predictor of attempted
suicide; place of birth (Puerto Rico versus the continental United States)
was not.
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