Suicide

The United Health Foundation has awarded a 3-year, $2 million grant to Rainbow Health to address mental health disparities in underrepresented youth and young adults in Minnesota, according to a press release.

ED visits for suicide attempts and suicidal ideation increased among children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

From 2003 to 2020, one of every five suicides were associated with problems with an intimate partner, according to findings published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Current smoking, use of sedative hypnotics and dyspnea increased the risk for death by suicide or drug overdose among adults with a smoking history with or without COPD, according to study results published in CHEST.

Among veterans aged 65 years or older, frailty was positively associated with risk for suicide attempts and negatively associated with risk for suicide death, according to data published in JAMA Psychiatry.

A PTSD program initially developed for veterans is now serving and providing benefits to civilians, with treatment typically lasting 1 week to 3 months.

Children born to mothers, not fathers, with primary antibody immunodeficiencies had greater risks for certain psychiatric disorders and for suicidal behavior, according to data published in JAMA Psychiatry.

A model developed to predict suicide attempts performed well across races and ethnicities, according to a research letter published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Youth suicide rates increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaskan Native and non-Hispanic Black youths, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Following 2 consecutive years of decline, total suicides in the U.S. rose from nearly 46,000 in 2020 to just over 48,000 in 2021, researchers wrote in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.