Teens who are harassed by caretakers or by peers or who were sexually assaulted are more than twice as likely to consider suicide as those who are not victimized, researchers found.
In a study assessing the effects of multiple forms of victimization on teens' suicidal ideation, being the target of parental maltreatment , sexual assault , and peer victimization were significantly associated with suicidal ideation, according to Heather Turner.
Teens who had been polyvictimized -- those exposed to seven or more types of harassment -- in the past year were nearly six times as likely to think about suicide (OR 5.81, 95% CI 3.09 to 10.15), they wrote online in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
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