Report: 3 Million U.S. Teens Contemplate Suicide

Report: 3 Million U.S. Teens Contemplate Suicide (2002/07/19)

調查顯示：300萬美國少年曾企圖自殺 (2002/07/19)

Three million American teens have thought seriously about or even attempted suicide, a government survey released on Sunday showed.

More than 13% of young Americans between 14 and 17 years of age considered suicide in 2000, according to the report from the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Only 36% of them had received mental health treatment or counseling, SAMHSA noted.

Depression is the main cause of suicide, SAMHSA administrator Charles Curie explained in a statement.

"We need to help teens make the link between untreated depression and the risk for suicide, and help them identify serious depression or suicide risk in a friend," Curie said. "We must encourage teens to tell a responsible adult when a friend is at risk for suicide."

More than one third of the 3 million teens aged 12 to 17 who said they thought about suicide in the past 12 months actually tried it, the survey done by SAMHSA found.

Girls were twice as likely as boys to say they thought about suicide, but race and areas did not seem to make a difference, the report indicates. The highest rate was noted in the western part of the country, where 13.5% of children aged 12 to 17 reported having had thoughts of suicide.

(Agencies)

美國政府7月14日公布了一份調查報告，其結果顯示有300萬十幾歲的美國青少年曾有過自殺的念頭，他們其中還有人將其付諸實際行動。

根據美國物質濫用與心理衛生服務部（SAMHSA）的報告，2000年，美國14至17歲的青少年中有超過13%的人曾想過自殺。然而只有36%的人接受了精神方面的治療或咨詢。

物質濫用與心理衛生服務部管理人員查爾斯·居里在一項聲明中解釋說，導致青少年自殺的主要原因是精神抑郁。

居里說："我們需要幫助青少年了解如果精神抑郁患者不進行及時治療就會有自殺的危險，還要幫助他們判斷自己的朋友是否患有嚴重的精神抑郁癥或有自殺傾向。我們必須鼓勵青少年在發現自己有朋友有自殺的念頭時，及時通知成年人。"

這份報告說，在這300萬曾經有過輕生念頭的12到17歲青少年中，超過1/3的人承認他們在過去的一年中曾真的自殺過。

在接受調查的人中，有過自殺念頭的女孩差不多是男孩的兩倍，不過比例在種族上和地區上是沒有什么差別的。自殺率最高的地區是美國的西部地區，曾有13.5%的青少年有過輕生念頭。

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