Mental health expert creates first research model to study high rate of U.S.-born Latina teen suicide attempts

“In recent years, one in five U.S. Latina teens attempted suicide. Though this rate is startlingly higher than their non-Hispanic peers, “efforts to understand the phenomenon have been hampered by a dearth of solid statistics and research,” says Luis H. Zayas, Ph.D., professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis.

“We have developed a new research model that will help us to understand what is really behind those statistics,” says Zayas, also a professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine and an expert on mental health issues in the Latino community.”

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