This study will explore the role of social determinants that occur during childhood and adolescence on the development of later self-harm and suicide among youths in England. It will investigate how specific social determinants (i.e., social inclusion and non-discrimination, housing, socioeconomic circumstance, community and social contexts, and early family adversity) across childhood and early adolescence associate with self-harm and attempting suicide in late adolescence and young adulthood. Furthermore, it will examine whether any of these social determinants predict later self-harm or suicide. And finally, whether this varies across different sexes, races, and sexualities.

Aim

To investigate the impact of key social determinants during childhood and adolescence on the development of later self-harm and suicide attempt in young adults in England.

Research Questions

• What are the associations between key social determinants that occur in childhood and adolescence and later self-harm and/or suicide attempts among youths?
• What are the most relevant social determinants that occur in childhood and adolescence, predicting later self-harm and/or suicide attempts in youths?
• Are there differences in the associations between relevant social determinants that occur in childhood and adolescence and later self-harm and/or suicide attempts in young people across different sexes, ethnicities, and sexualities?

Data

This study uses data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), a birth cohort study which follows the lives of approximately 19,000 young people born in the UK in 2000-02.

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