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Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among High School Students - Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2021.
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- ADHD and Suicidality in Adolescents: A Systematic Review of Moderators and Mediators.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Ketamine for mood disorders, anxiety, and suicidality in children and adolescents: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Translating Suicide Safety Planning Components Into the Design of mHealth App Features: Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2024Pooled it
- Building toward a text-based intervention for parents of suicidal adolescents seeking emergency department care: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2025Trial
- Text Messaging to Extend School-Based Suicide Prevention: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mental health · 2024Trial
- Family immigration status and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in Latino adolescents in California.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Understanding School-Based Universal Suicide Screening Strategies for Minoritized Students: A Pilot Study.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- An Exploratory Study of Social Skills Deficits and Suicide Attempts in Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients: A Machine Learning Analysis of Goldstein's ART Framework.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Pathways Linking Racial Discrimination to Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Adolescents.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- Trends and Disparities in Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among an Ethno-Racially Diverse Group of Adolescents: 2013-2022.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Adolescents Admitted for Suicide Attempts to a Tertiary Pediatric Hospital in Romania: An Eleven-Year Retrospective Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Structural Minority Stress Predicts Suicidality, Substance Use, and Sexual Risk Behaviors among Sexual Minority Adolescents.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2026Article
- Pessimistic repetitive thought, goal-oriented repetitive thought, and positive indulging about the future as predictors of suicide ideation among treatment-seeking adolescents.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Teens' Time Alone with Their Clinician: Receipt of Health Care Transition Preparation and Anticipatory Guidance.Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM · 2026Article
- Brief Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Mitigate Subacute Suicidal Ideation Among Youth.Cognitive and behavioral practice · 2026Article
- Potential predictors of future suicide attempts in adolescents assigned female at birth.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Psychometric validation of the Paykel Suicidal Behavior Scale in Mexican adolescents.Revista de saude publica · 2026Article
- The relationship between suicidal behavior and hematological inflammatory parameters: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Chronicity of Suicidality: Youth Suicide Prevention in Primary Care.Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services · 2026Article
- A review of youth mental health in the U.S.: the current landscape, youth perspectives, and strategies for equitable solutions.Frontiers in health services · 2026Review
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Abstract
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among high school-aged youths aged 14-18 years. The 2021 suicide rate for this age group was 9.0 per 100,000 population. Updating a previous analysis of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey during 2009-2019, this report uses 2019 and 2021 data to examine high school students' reports of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Prevalence estimates are reported by grade, race and ethnicity, sexual identity, and sex of sexual contacts. Unadjusted logistic regression models were used to calculate prevalence differences comparing 2019 to 2021 and prevalence ratios comparing suicidal behavior between subgroups across demographic characteristics to a referent group. From 2019 to 2021, female students had an increased prevalence of seriously considered attempting suicide (from 24.1% to 30%), an increase in making a suicide plan (from 19.9% to 23.6%), and an increase in suicide attempts (from 11.0% to 13.3%). In addition, from 2019 to 2021, Black or African American (Black), Hispanic or Latino (Hispanic), and White female students had an increased prevalence of seriously considered attempting suicide. In 2021, Black female students had an increased prevalence of suicide attempts and Hispanic female students had an increased prevalence of suicide attempts that required medical treatment compared with White female students. Prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors remained stable overall for male students from 2019 to 2021. A comprehensive approach to suicide prevention with a focus on health equity is needed to address these disparities and reduce prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors for all youths. School and community-based strategies include creating safe and supportive environments, promoting connectedness, teaching coping and problem solving, and gatekeeper training.
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