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A Description of Suicides in the Army National Guard During 2007-2014 and Associated Risk Factors
- Source :
- Suicidelife-threatening behavior. 47(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Suicide, due to its increased occurrence in recent years, has been a chief concern of the U.S. military. While there have been many published studies on the topic, conspicuously absent are studies that have included reserve military personnel. To fill this gap, this study reports descriptive statistics of personnel information and events surrounding 706 Army National Guard suicides that had occurred from 2007 through 2014. Comparative personnel information for random samples of nonsuicides for similar years (8 years, 1,000 cases per year) allowed examining factors associated most with suicide. Findings were very similar to those observed in the active duty Army and civilian populations. Primary risk factors for suicide were as follows: age (young), gender (male), and race/ethnicity (White). Most suicides occurred in nonmilitary status (86%) involving personal firearms (72%). Most frequent events surrounding the suicide were as follows: poor military performance (36% of all suicides), parent-family relationship problems (28%), substance abuse (27%), past behavioral health problem (20%), current behavioral health problems (10%), income problems (22%), and full-time employment problems (18%). Implications of findings for suicide prevention are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Suicide Prevention
Firearms
Active duty
Adolescent
Poison control
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Sex Factors
Risk Factors
Injury prevention
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
business.industry
Mental Disorders
Racial Groups
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Age Factors
Human factors and ergonomics
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
United States
030227 psychiatry
Substance abuse
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Military personnel
Suicide
Military Personnel
Female
Medical emergency
business
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1943278X
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Suicidelife-threatening behavior
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ae0990ddb48bbe29a76ffab0b068c1ba