Proportion of Individuals With Past-Year Suicidal Ideation Who Attempted Suicide Over the Past 10 Years in the United States, and the Influence of Age and Sex

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Shannon Lange ◽  
Courtney Bagge ◽  
Charlotte Probst ◽  
Jürgen Rehm
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Random Effects ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Age Category

Abstract. Background: In recent years, the rate of death by suicide has been increasing disproportionately among females and young adults in the United States. Presumably this trend has been mirrored by the proportion of individuals with suicidal ideation who attempted suicide. Aim: We aimed to investigate whether the proportion of individuals in the United States with suicidal ideation who attempted suicide differed by age and/or sex, and whether this proportion has increased over time. Method: Individual-level data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 2008–2017, were used to estimate the year-, age category-, and sex-specific proportion of individuals with past-year suicidal ideation who attempted suicide. We then determined whether this proportion differed by age category, sex, and across years using random-effects meta-regression. Overall, age category- and sex-specific proportions across survey years were estimated using random-effects meta-analyses. Results: Although the proportion was found to be significantly higher among females and those aged 18–25 years, it had not significantly increased over the past 10 years. Limitations: Data were self-reported and restricted to past-year suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Conclusion: The increase in the death by suicide rate in the United States over the past 10 years was not mirrored by the proportion of individuals with past-year suicidal ideation who attempted suicide during this period.

Waking Up in the Poll Booth

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 901-910
Author(s):  
Robert E. Goodin ◽  
James Mahmud Rice
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Waking Up

Judging from Gallup Polls in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, opinion often changes during an election campaign. Come election day itself, however, opinion often reverts back nearer to where it was before the campaign began. That that happens even in Australia, where voting is compulsory and turnout is near-universal, suggests that differential turnout among those who have and have not been influenced by the campaign is not the whole story. Inspection of individual-level panel data from 1987 and 2005 British General Elections confirms that between 3 and 5 percent of voters switch voting intentions during the campaign, only to switch back toward their original intentions on election day. One explanation, we suggest, is that people become more responsible when stepping into the poll booth: when voting they reflect back on the government's whole time in office, rather than just responding (as when talking to pollsters) to the noise of the past few days' campaigning. Inspection of Gallup Polls for UK snap elections suggests that this effect is even stronger in elections that were in that sense unanticipated.

White Paper: Efficacy of Psychiatric Drugs

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline A. Sparks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Emotional Problems ◽  
The United States ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Behavioral And Emotional Problems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychiatric Drugs ◽  
The World ◽  
Meta Analyses

Psychiatric drugs have been a mainstay of treatment for a range of behavioral and emotional problems over the past 6 decades in the United States and around the world. Although their use has skyrocketed, the problems they purport to alleviate have not diminished but, in fact, have increased (Whitaker, 2010a). This article summarizes current evidence for the efficacy of antidepressants, antipsychotics, and stimulants. Findings from meta-analyses, reviews, and major trials do not support widespread use of these drugs.

Attempted Suicide: A Multilevel Examination of Inmate Characteristics and Prison Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 589-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryce E. Stoliker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Correctional Institutions ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Modeling Techniques ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Correctional institutions in the United States witness higher rates of suicide compared with the general population, as well as a higher number of attempted suicides compared with completed cases. Prison research focused little attention on investigating the combined effects of inmate characteristics and prison context on suicide, with studies using only one level of analysis (prison or prisoner) and neglecting the nested nature of inmates in prisons. To extend this literature, multilevel modeling techniques were employed to investigate individual- and prison-contextual predictive patterns of attempted suicide using a nationally representative sample of 18,185 inmates in 326 prisons across the United States. Results revealed that several individual-level factors predicted odds for attempted suicide, such as inmate characteristics/demographics, prison experiences, having a serious mental illness, and symptoms of mental health issues. Some prison-contextual variables, as well as cross-level interaction effects, also significantly predicted odds for attempted suicide. Policy and research implications are discussed.

A Comparative Trial of Four Mono-Amine Oxidase Inhibitors on Chronic Depressives

1961 ◽  
Vol 107 (448) ◽  
pp. 538-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. J. N. Bates ◽  
A. D. McL. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Amine Oxidase ◽  
Comparative Trial ◽  
The United States ◽  
Grand Total ◽  
Western Germany

Depression is a serious illness in Western Europe and the United States of America. It is estimated that in 1957 the combined total of suicides in the United States, Britain, France and Western Germany was approximately 30, 000 (1). The attempted suicide rate is considered to be six or seven times as great, which could give a grand total of 200, 000 suicide attempts in that year in these countries. Many of these patients are depressives, as stated in a recent British Medical Journal leading article (2).

scholarly journals A Case of Attempted Suicide by Cerbera odollam Seed Ingestion

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Michelle Bernshteyn ◽  
Steven H. Adams ◽  
Kunal Gada
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
The United States ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
The World ◽  
Seed Ingestion ◽  
Transgender Patient

We report a case of attempted suicide by Cerbera odollam seed ingestion by a transgender patient who was successfully treated at our hospital. While the C. odollam plant has multiple practical and ornamental functions, its seeds have traditionally been utilized for suicidal and homicidal purposes in many parts of the world. Physicians should be aware of the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of C. odollam ingestion given the current ease of availability of these seeds in the United States and the increased reports of suicide attempts.

scholarly journals Prevalence and Correlates of Lifetime Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts Among Latino Subgroups in the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 68 (04) ◽  
pp. 572-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa R. Fortuna ◽  
Debra Joy Perez ◽  
Glorisa Canino ◽  
William Sribney ◽  
Margarita Alegria
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in the United States: 1991–1992 and 2001–2002

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Baca-Garcia ◽  
M M Perez-Rodriguez ◽  
K M Keyes ◽  
M A Oquendo ◽  
D S Hasin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Depression, Suicidal Ideation and the Big Five Personality Traits

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
The United States ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

Aim: This study explored the association of the Big Five personality traits (OCEAN: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism) with current depression and a history of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Methods: A sample of 115 undergraduate students in the United States was administered measures of the Beck Depression Inventory, and the 15-item Big Five personality Inventory. The students were also asked whether they had ever thought about suicide in the past and whether they had ever-attempted suicide in the past. Results: Four of the Big Five personality trait scores (conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism) were associated with depression scores, accounting for 36% of the variance in depression scores. Among the Big Five personality traits, neuroticism was positively associated with depression, while conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness were negatively associated with depression. Conclusions: The Big Five personality traits scores did not predict a history of suicide attempts in the sample of American students, but neuroticism scores were associated with a history of suicidal ideation.

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