Suicide

Suicide rates during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan exceeded estimated numbers across a multitude of personal, socioeconomic and social factors, according to a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.

Data from a brief patient self-report scale and electronic health records may help clinicians better identify patients at high suicide risk, according to results of a prognostic study published in JAMA Network Open.

Psychedelic therapy appeared associated with large acute and sustained reductions in suicidality, according to results of a meta-analysis published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Healio’s most-viewed psychiatry stories in January highlight the global burden of mental disorders on health, a survey that provides insights into Americans’ support of psychedelics and a regulatory development for Rexulti.

Adults with CVD, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases and comorbid psychiatric conditions are at “substantially” increased risk for premature death or death by suicide compared with adults without psychiatric comorbidities, data show.

Drug use, suicide and homicide account for more than a fifth of all deaths during pregnancy and the first year after birth, according to a study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Rates for suicide and mortality were elevated for patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder regardless of timing for diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, according to a longitudinal study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Despite an increase in the rate of suicide attempts, use of mental health services by those who attempted suicide within a year of doing so has not increased, per a nationwide cross-sectional study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

A questionnaire with a standardized firearm access question may help identify suicide risk, according to results of a population-based case series published in JAMA Network Open.

Patients with cancer who resided in low-income and rural areas appeared at higher risk for suicide than those in high-income and urban areas, according to a retrospective, population-based study in JAMA Network Open.