The most common clinical characteristics and precipitating circumstances included mental health problems, relationship problems, interpersonal trauma and life stressors, and prior suicidal thoughts/behavior, with variance by sex and age group.
The researchers found that there were 2,123 youth with suicide-related emergency department encounters in 2020 versus 2,339 in 2019.
This meta-analysis aimed to evaluate whether there’s evidence that supports the FDA-mandated warning for increased suicidality risk with antiseizure drug usage among people with epilepsy.
We examine a pair of recent studies focusing on primary care physicians and what they need to provide better service to patients struggling with their mental health. How can these physicians improve their suicide prevention tools?
Researchers investigated the associations of ADHD pharmacotherapy with externalizing symptoms and childhood suicidality.
Investigators sought to describe suicide mortality rates and correlates among adults with schizophrenia across the lifespan.
Depression and suicide concerns increased among adolescents during the pandemic, especially among females.
Recent studies have shown an increase in depression and suicidality in transgender youth. To learn more about the mental health challenges affecting transgender youth and how clinicians can better support these patients, we interviewed Jason V. Lambrese, MD, staff child and adolescent psychiatrist at Cleveland Clinic’s Lakewood Family Health Canter in Lakewood, Ohio, and Ralph Vetters, MD, MPH, pediatrician and site medical director at the Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center, a program of Fenway Health in Boston.
Clinicians writing about the rising rates of suicide and suicidal behaviors among Black youth address the lack of suitable available data and call for the need to mobilize research for prevention.
While prior research indicates that cannabis use may increase the severity of certain psychiatric symptoms, its impact on suicidality is unknown. To inform this gap, investigators extracted data from the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health for the years 2008 through 2019.
