Suicide

Access to paid sick leave was associated with lower mortality rates among men and women in the United States, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Strong associations between the genetic risk for suicide attempts in adults and their offspring were reported in a case-control study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

After undergoing a training program, physicians showed statistically significant improvements in their knowledge of suicide and confidence in treating at-risk patients, according to a recent study.

Deaths associated with alcohol, drugs, and suicide took the lives of 186,763 Americans in 2020, a 20% 1-year increase in the combined death rate, according to a report by Trust for America’s Health and Well Being Trust.

The risk of suicide mortality was similar in patients treated with electroconvulsive therapy and matched controls, with no evidence that the therapy decreased risk of death by suicide, results of a recent study showed.

The United States on Saturday, July 16, will transition the 10-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to 988, an easy-to-remember number for 24/7 crisis care.

Analyzing clinical phenotypes of race, ethnicity and sex, as well as history of concussions and depression, were crucial in determining risk for suicide attempts among youth in the United States, a study showed in JAMA Network Open.

Nocturnal wakefulness, particularly in the overnight hours, was shown to be a significant factor for suicide risk among Australians who committed suicide in 2017, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

More than 76% of parents of middle and high school students in New Jersey said that depression screenings in school are necessary, according to a survey conducted by Rutgers University.

Rates of suicide among adults in the United States decreased following the 2014 expansion of Medicaid, with the sharpest subsistence occurring for young adults, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.