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James Giokaris
James is a current junior at Wesleyan University majoring in music with a concentration in composition and theory and film studies. His interests include writing for contemporary, classical, & experimental genres, studying ethnomusicology, and working on the production and post-production of different filmmaking projects on campus. Outside of his studies he is involved with the school’s Varsity Men’s Track and Field team, open-division club ultimate frisbee team, and multiple a cappella groups on campus.
Abstract: This research study categorically examines the association between adolescent students who have struggled with thoughts and/or previous attempts of suicide with the ease of access that these young adults have to receiving medical care for these struggles. Suicide accounts for the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, so research dedicated to discovering potential correlations to such is important so it can provide insight as to how suicide prevention measures and programs can be catered and implemented for members of this age group to help lower this statistic. This research offers a cross-sectional study that seeks to find how adolescents’ exhibitions of suicidal thoughts and/or previous suicide attempts are influenced by a varying degree of difficulty within these adolescents trying to access medical care for such. Data for this study is drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (AddHealth) Wave I. This study’s measures included individuals’ self-evaluations regarding the exhibition of suicidal thoughts and previous attempts of suicide, in addition to the parents of these individuals self-evaluating their ease of access on a four point range of difficulty to receiving medical care and their total income over the 1994-95 fiscal year. This study investigates how the differences between those with easy vs. difficult access to medical care impacts rates of exhibition of suicidal thoughts and previous suicide attempts, along with how the socioeconomic statuses of the individuals influence this ease of access to medical care and/or the rates of suicidal thoughts and past attempts within these individuals.
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