Suicide was highlighted as a major public health issue in a recent release of data by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).1 The CDC reported a 30% increase (1999–2016) in suicide across all age groups up to age 75 years (in half of all US states), and in 2016, 54% of people in 27 US states who died by suicide had no mental health diagnosis.1 Yet most papers and reports on suicide stress that up to 90% of people who die by suicide had a psychiatric disorder. Despite innovative approaches in both psychiatric treatments and suicide prevention, some important shortcomings seem to have a role in impairing effective progress in reducing deaths by suicide. A paradigm shift is needed that should focus the assessment of suicide risk on the centrality of the mental pain in suicidal individuals

The increase of suicide rates: the need for a paradigm shift / Pompili, M.. - In: THE LANCET. - ISSN 0140-6736. - 392:10146(2018), pp. 474-475. [10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31498-3]

The increase of suicide rates: the need for a paradigm shift

Pompili M.
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2018

Abstract

Suicide was highlighted as a major public health issue in a recent release of data by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).1 The CDC reported a 30% increase (1999–2016) in suicide across all age groups up to age 75 years (in half of all US states), and in 2016, 54% of people in 27 US states who died by suicide had no mental health diagnosis.1 Yet most papers and reports on suicide stress that up to 90% of people who die by suicide had a psychiatric disorder. Despite innovative approaches in both psychiatric treatments and suicide prevention, some important shortcomings seem to have a role in impairing effective progress in reducing deaths by suicide. A paradigm shift is needed that should focus the assessment of suicide risk on the centrality of the mental pain in suicidal individuals
2018
suicide; risk; prevention
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The increase of suicide rates: the need for a paradigm shift / Pompili, M.. - In: THE LANCET. - ISSN 0140-6736. - 392:10146(2018), pp. 474-475. [10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31498-3]
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