@article{4f3fff6312884a2fa3cb3c85597cc4bf,
title = "Parent-child connectedness and long-term risk for suicidal ideation in a nationally representative sample of US adolescents",
abstract = "Background: Few studies have addressed on the role of parent-child connectedness (PCC) on adolescents' risk for suicidal ideation from a longitudinal, developmental perspective. Aim: This study examined PCC during adolescence and risk of suicidal ideation into adulthood among a nationally representative sample of American adolescents. Method: The study includes 13,234 adolescents aged 11-18 from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) who were surveyed during adolescence (1994-1995) and then again in early adulthood (2008-2009). Multinomial logistic regression estimated the association between PCC during adolescence and having ideation during the adolescence period only, in adulthood only, and in both adolescence and adulthood as compared with those without suicidal ideation. Results: After adjusting for depressive symptoms and other parent and adolescent characteristics, adolescents in two-parent households who reported higher PCC during adolescence had lower relative risk of having ideation during adolescence alone and in both adolescence and adulthood. In mother-only households, higher mother connectedness was also associated with decreased risk of having adolescent ideation. Conclusion: PCC is an important modifiable target for the prevention of suicidal ideation from adolescence into adulthood.",
keywords = "Adolescent, Family, Parent-child connectedness, Suicidal ideation, Suicide",
author = "Kuramoto-Crawford, {S. Janet} and Ali, {Mir M.} and Wilcox, {Holly C.}",
note = "Funding Information: This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due to Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara En-twisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth). No direct support was received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis. We would also like to thank our colleagues at the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality for helpful comments in the analysis of this paper and R21MH090480 from the National Institute of Mental Health awarded to Holly Wilcox. Funding Information: Dr. Holly C. Wilcox is an associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health, MD, USA. Dr. Wilcox has spent 25 years engaged in youth suicide research as principal investigator of projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and NARSAD. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Hogrefe Publishing.",
year = "2017",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1027/0227-5910/a000439",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "38",
pages = "309--318",
journal = "Crisis",
issn = "0227-5910",
publisher = "Hogrefe Publishing",
number = "5",
}