Youth and suicidality: Correlates among clients attending youth mental health promotion clinics in India.

Banandur S PradeepVirupaksha Hasiruvalli GangappaJyoti M KoujageriLavanya GaradyMutharaju ArelingaiahSathya Velu RamamurthyVani NaikVeeksha RaiShalin GiboySateesh SajjanarKasipalli Laxminarayana Subhash ChandraShalini RajneeshGururaj Gopalkrishna

Published in: The International journal of social psychiatry (2022)

The results alert all institutions, organisations and departments that cater to services and development of youth, to be sensitive towards risk factors of suicidality. The study advocates youth mental health promotion clinics to be equipped with measures/interventions to identify and manage such risk factors. This study has implications for Youth mental health promotion in India and other similar South-East Asian countries.

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