Suicide

Throughout the year, Healio has conducted exclusive interviews with physicians, researchers and policy experts to learn more about emerging research and other health care updates that impact clinical practice.

Although COVID-19 remained a popular topic among Healio Primary Care readers in 2021, other stories that discussed diabetes screening and physician suicide also generated significant attention.

Research conducted in Korea found that the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic lessened severe emotional response in young people compared with pre-pandemic levels, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Individuals with schizophrenia who died by suicide were more likely to be older, have previous suicide attempts and be women, according to data published in Psychiatry Research.

Adding Suicide Cognitions Scale questions to the commonly used Public Health Questionnaire-9 improved the accuracy of suicide risk screening in primary care clinics, data show.

Adding lithium to usual care for veterans with major depression or bipolar disorders did not reduce incidence of suicide-related events, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Suicide prevention efforts may need to account for ethnicity because of variation across underrepresented groups, according to results of an observational cohort study published in Lancet Psychiatry.

In conjunction with Veterans Day, Healio Psychiatry has compiled a list of recent research related to veteran mental health.

A substantial number of deaths among men with metastatic prostate cancer resulted from noncancer causes, including cardiovascular disease, according to a retrospective cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Human influence has had an unequivocal impact on Earth’s climate, causing significant changes that threaten people’s security and physical and mental health, according to a landmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.