A nurse assesses five newly hospitalized patients. Which patients have the highest suicide risk? Select all that apply
a. 82-year-old white man
b. 17-year-old white female adolescent
c. 39-year-old African-American man
d. 29-year-old African-American woman
e. 22-year-old man with traumatic brain injury
ANS: A, B, E
Whites have suicide rates almost twice those of nonwhites, and the rate is particularly high for older adult men, adolescents, and young adults. Other high risk groups include young African-American men, Native-American men, older Asian Americans, and persons with traumatic brain injury.
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