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Parents' awareness of children's suicide attempts

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.10.1364

In independent psychiatric interviews with 175 children and their mothers, either the mother or the child reported that 13 (7%) of the children had made a suicide attempt. Eight of the 13 children reported attempts that were not reported by their mothers.

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