Suicide

The proportion of teen girls in the United States who reported feeling persistently sad or hopeless increased nearly 60% from 2011 to 2021 to nearly three in five girls, according to data released Monday by the CDC.

During 2020, the rate of pregnancy-associated death increased by 35% from 2019, with changes observed in the proportions of drug-related deaths, homicides and suicides, researchers reported.

Universal screening helped identify high school students at risk for suicide and made them more likely to engage in mental health treatment, according to study findings published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

Individuals with mental disorders who attempted suicide were reported to have impaired or abnormal social decision-making, evidenced by neuro-electrophysiological activity, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

The risk for suicide remains elevated among individuals diagnosed with cancer compared with the general population, despite a downward trend over the last 2 decades, a recent study found.

Clinical notes and public records were shown to improve a machine-learning model’s prediction of suicide after psychiatric hospitalization, researchers wrote in JAMA Psychiatry.

Adults who underwent surgery for most cancer types had a significantly higher incidence of suicide compared with the U.S. general population, results of a retrospective study in JAMA Oncology showed.

Restrictions on reproductive care access were associated with higher state-level rates of suicide among reproductive-aged women, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Factors for risk for rehospitalization for those with psychiatric disorders included suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, previous hospitalization and longer stay in hospital, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

A new national telehealth program called Crisis Care has been created to treat individuals with elevated suicide risk, a release from Brightside Health stated.