Proportion of individuals with past-year auicidal ideation who attempted suicide over the past 10 years in the United States, and the influence of age and sex

• Verfasst von: Lange, Shannon [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Bagge, Courtney [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Probst, Charlotte [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Rehm, Jürgen [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Proportion of individuals with past-year auicidal ideation who attempted suicide over the past 10 years in the United States, and the influence of age and sex
• Verf.angabe: Shannon Lange, Courtney Bagge, Charlotte Probst, and Jürgen Rehm
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: May 19, 2020
• Umfang: 5 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 16.04.2021
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Crisis
• Ort Quelle: Seattle [u.a.] : Hogrefe & Huber, 1995
• Jahr Quelle: 2020
• Band/Heft Quelle: 42(2020), 2, Seite 152-156
• ISSN Quelle: 2151-2396
• DOI: doi:10.1027/0227-5910/a000690
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1755138954

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.