Thursday, January 9, 2025

Study Highlights Social Determinants Most Highly Associated With Suicide

https://alert.psychnews.org/2025/01/study-highlights-social-determinants.html

Individuals involved with the criminal justice system or recently released from incarceration are among those at greatest risk of suicide mortality, according to an “umbrella analysis” published in in JAMA Psychiatry.

This analysis of how social determinants of health (SDOH) affect suicidality also found that exposure to parental suicide, experiencing divorce or unemployment in mid-life, and accessibility to firearms were strongly associated with suicide mortality.