Suicidal Ideation

Working with suicidal individuals is inevitable for clinicians, thus making it essential to understand suicide and create a plan for its risk assessment, according to a presenter at the Psych Congress 2020 Virtual Experience conference.

Youths who received outpatient mental health follow-up within 1 week of psychiatric hospital discharge appeared at reduced risk for suicide in the immediate period after discharge, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Despair appeared associated with increased risk for suicidality and substance misuse among young adults, according to results of a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Esketamine nasal spray appeared to rapidly reduce depressive symptoms among severely ill patients with major depressive disorder who had active suicidal ideation with intent, according to a study published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Suicidal acts have increased among women, adolescents and older adults, according to findings of a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

The growing number of adolescents receiving care for internalizing mental health problems and the increasing share receiving care in specialty outpatient settings have put new demands on specialty adolescent mental health treatment centers, according to results of a survey study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Researchers have identified protective and risk factors associated with childhood suicidality, according to results of a U.S. population-based study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Individuals with suicidality often are excluded from antidepressant trials, which creates uncertainty about medication efficacy and safety in segments of the target population, according to study findings published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Study findings published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry suggest that the severity of depressive symptoms may be more accurate in predicting suicidal ideation than hopelessness. It was the top story in psychiatry last week.

Hopelessness is likely a driving factor for suicidal ideation in patients with depressive disorder, largely because it covaries with depressive symptoms, according to study findings published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. However, researchers noted that severity of depressive symptoms may predict suicidal ideation more accurately than hopelessness.