Youth Suicide: An Opportunity for Prevention

• Published in: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 59; no. 9; pp. 1019 - 1021
• Main Authors: Ertl, Allison, Crosby, Alex E., Blair, Janet M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.09.2020; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescents; Adult; Advocacy; Alaska Natives; Child; Community; Community Relations; Death; Death & dying; Emergency medical care; Emergency services; Evidence; Family Relationship; Female; Firearms; Health care expenditures; Health Conditions; Health problems; Health Services; Health surveillance; Help Seeking; High School Students; Hispanic Americans; Humans; Law enforcement; Male; Mental disorders; Mental health; Morbidity; Parent Child Relationship; Parenting Skills; Patients; Premature mortality; Prevention; Problem solving; Productivity; Professionals; Program Evaluation; Public health; Rating Scales; Research Needs; Secondary school students; Secondary schools; Self injury; Self-Injurious Behavior - prevention & control; Skills; Social Emotional Learning; Strangulation; Students; Suicidal behavior; Suicide; Suicides & suicide attempts; United States; Young Adult; United States; United States > US
• ISSN: 0890-8567; 1527-5418; 1527-5418
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2020.01.017

In the United States, youth suicide is a large and growing public health problem that contributes to health care costs, lost productivity, morbidity, and premature death. In 2017, an estimated 199,877 youths aged 10 to 24 years were treated in emergency departments in the United States for self-harm,1 and 7.4% of high school students reported that they attempted suicide one or more times in the past year.2 Suicide was the second leading cause of death among youths aged 10 to 24 years in 2017,1 and the suicide rate increased significantly for both male and female youths from 1999 to 2017.3