Suicidality and other forms of mental health distress are health disparities that increasingly are being documented and studied.
Interventions Like Telephone Calls Can Reduce Suicides
Suicidal patients following emergency department discharge can be benefited through interventions like phone calls, reveals study.
Suicidal patients following emergency department discharge can be benefited through interventions like phone calls, reveals study.
‘Suicidality and other forms of mental health distress are health disparities that increasingly are being documented and studied in the academic literature as disproportionately affecting transgender people and populations.’
In a meta-synthesis of the transgender suicidality literature that included 42 studies published over 19 years, coauthors Noah Adams, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Maaya Hitomi, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, and Cherie Moody, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, reported differences in the rates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts between male-to-female and female-to-male transgender respondents and gender non-conforming individuals. Their findings, presented in the article "Varied Reports of Adult Transgender Suicidality: Synthesizing and Describing the Peer Reviewed and Grey Literature," can help target interventions aimed at suicide protection and support for these at-risk populations. "Suicidality and other forms of mental health distress are health disparities that increasingly are being documented and studied in the academic literature as disproportionately affecting transgender people and populations," says Editor-in-Chief Robert Garofalo MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and Director, Center for Gender, Sexuality and HIV Prevention, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. "With this work, Noah Adams and colleagues advance the field by conducting a meta-analysis giving important epidemiologic data that can then be used to develop interventions designed to help transgender people who are having suicidal thoughts or are experiencing psychological distress."
Source-Eurekalert
Suicide, The Leading Cause Of Death Among Young Chinese
Suicide has become the leading cause of death among the Chinese. Young people in between the age group of 15 and 35 are more susceptible.
Suicide has become the leading cause of death among the Chinese. Young people in between the age group of 15 and 35 are more susceptible.
Childhood Adversities May Increase the Risk of Suicide in Adolescence
Parental psychiatric disorder or parental abuse are common childhood adversities which could increase the risk of suicide in adolescence.
Parental psychiatric disorder or parental abuse are common childhood adversities which could increase the risk of suicide in adolescence.
Spousal Suicide Increases Risk of Mental Illness in Bereaved Spouse
Spouses bereaved by a partner's suicide have higher risk than the general population of developing mental health disorders within five years of the loss.
Spouses bereaved by a partner's suicide have higher risk than the general population of developing mental health disorders within five years of the loss.
