Youth experiencing homelessness at risk for suicide: psychosocial risk factors and service use patterns
Understanding the needs of youth experiencing homelessness who are at risk for suicide is critical to developing interventions to alleviate their risk for suicide. Given that the use of medical and mental health care is low among this population, more active outreach strategies may be warranted to deliver prevention interventions.
Authors
- Laura J. Chavez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1565-2346)
- Natasha Slesnick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6629-0333)
- Allen B. Mallory (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-9735)
- Arielle H. Sheftall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5730-5636)
- Mattina Davenport (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5098-105X)
- Jodi L. Ford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0778-4667)
- Jesse L. Hawke
- Alicia C. Bunger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6407-5111)
- Xin Feng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4046-5374)
- Tansel Yilmazer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8143-3427)
- Kelly J. Kelleher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4420-8044)
- Alexis Pizzulo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2998-3396)
- Margaret M. Fitzpatrick
Institutions
- Nationwide Children's Hospital (US)
- University of Rochester Medical Center (US)
- Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté (FR)
- The Ohio State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Public Health
- Published
- 2025-02-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-21212-2
- Primary Topic
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Drug Abuse