ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2017
Suicide mortality among male veterans discharged from Veterans Health Administration acute psychiatric units from 2005 to 2010.
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- Sleep disorders and suicide attempts following discharge from residential treatment.Frontiers in sleep · 2023Article
- Spreading a Strategy to Prevent Suicide After Psychiatric Hospitalization: Results of a Quality Improvement Spread Initiative.Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety · 2022Article
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- Temporal sequences of suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injurious thoughts and behaviors among inpatient and community-residing military veterans.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Article
- A comorbid mental disorder paradox: Using causal diagrams to understand associations between posttraumatic stress disorder and suicide.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2021Article
- Suicide and Seizures: A National Cohort Study in Veterans.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2021Article
- Recent trends in the rural-urban suicide disparity among veterans using VA health care.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Article
- Developing and testing Crisis Line Facilitation (CLF) to encourage help-seeking in adults receiving inpatient treatment for a suicidal crisis.Cognitive and behavioral practice · 2021Article
- Suicide risk in people with post-traumatic stress disorder: A cohort study of 3.1 million people in Sweden.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Article
- Association Between Positive Results on the Primary Care-Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Screen and Suicide Mortality Among US Veterans.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- A call to action to address rural mental health disparities.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2020Review
- Using Administrative Data to Predict Suicide After Psychiatric Hospitalization in the Veterans Health Administration System.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- A Pilot Study of an Intervention to Prevent Suicide After Psychiatric Hospitalization.The Journal of nervous and mental disease · 2019Article
- Ten-Year Trend and Correlates of Reported Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Young Male Veteran Suicide Decedents-Results from the National Violent Death Reporting System, 16 U.S. States, 2005-2014.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2019Article
- Re-Thinking Ethics and Politics in Suicide Prevention: Bringing Narrative Ideas into Dialogue with Critical Suicide Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Death From Suicide.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
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purposeThe purpose of this study was to calculate suicide rates and identify correlates of risk in the year following discharge from acute Veterans Health Administration psychiatric inpatient units among male veterans discharged from 2005 to 2010 (fiscal years).
methodsSuicide rates and standardized mortality ratios were calculated. Descriptive analyses were used to describe suicides and non-suicides and provide base rates for interpretation, and unadjusted and adjusted proportional hazard models were used to identify correlates of suicide.
resultsFrom 2005 to 2010, 929 male veterans died by suicide in the year after discharge and the suicide rate was 297/100,000 person-years (py). The suicide rate significantly increased from 234/100,000 py (95% CI = 193-282) in 2005 to 340/100,000 py (95% CI = 292-393) in 2008, after which it plateaued. Living in a rural setting, HR (95% CI) = 1.20 (1.05, 1.36), and being diagnosed with a mood disorder such as major depression, HR (95% CI) = 1.60 (1.36, 1.87), or other anxiety disorder, HR (95% CI) = 1.52 (1.24, 1.87), were associated with increased risk for suicide.
conclusionsAmong male veterans, the suicide rate in the year after discharge from acute psychiatric hospitalization increased from 2005 to 2008, after which it plateaued. Prevention efforts should target psychiatrically hospitalized veterans who live in rural settings and/or are diagnosed with mood or other anxiety disorders.
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