ERIC Number: EJ1460863
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jan
Pages: 6
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1389-4986
EISSN: EISSN-1573-6695
Available Date: 2025-01-23
The Association between College Enrollment and Suicide Attempts by Race and Ethnicity
Ashley M. Witmer1; Yali Deng2; Ramin Mojtabai3; Holly C. Wilcox1,4; James Aluri4
Prevention Science, v26 n1 p25-30 2025
Little is known about how race and ethnicity influence the association between college enrollment and past-year suicide attempts. In this brief report, the relationship between college enrollment and past-year suicide attempts varied across racial groups in a nationally representative sample of 12,474 full-time college enrolled and unenrolled young adults. Only White students displayed a protective association between enrollment and past-year suicide attempts (aOR, 0.32; 95% CI, 0.17, 0.62). Race and ethnicity significantly moderated the relationship between enrollment and past-year suicide attempts for Black/African American (P = 0.003) and multiracial (P = 0.03) compared to White young adults.
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Ethnicity, College Attendance, Suicide, College Students, Young Adults, Correlation, Self Destructive Behavior, Whites, African Americans
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Grant or Contract Numbers: T32MH0145920
Author Affiliations: 1Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Mental Health, Baltimore, USA; 2University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Social Work, Baltimore, USA; 3Tulane University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, New Orleans, USA; 4Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baltimore, USA