'Suicide Patterns' Annotations

Yongwen Jiang investigates the patterns of teens (not just suicidal teens but, the emotionally ok teens.) by doing a survey in a high school on teens. He claims that interventions to at risk teens may pervent the teens from committing suicide. Jiang develops this claim by first evaluating the percentage of students who felt depressed, thought of suicide, attempted suicide, and attempted suicide that resulted in a bodily injury that has to be treated by a nurse. Jiang explores the teen's thoughts by asking them many questions and performing many tests. Lastly, Jiang found that many of the suicidal teens had different sexual preferences, (a woman likeing a woman, etc.)had a traumatic past, and fellings of being overweight. Jiang's purpose was to inform those who this effects about the emotional distress that America puts on teens (having to be skinny, or light-skinned is the new beautiful.)in order for them to understand and/or try to pervent these occurances to happen in a loved one. This work is significant because it is an actual study of teens who are going throught these things vs. a person who researched it.