Death records of LGBTQ youth who died by suicide were substantially more likely to mention bullying as a factor than their non-LGBTQ peers.
Even modest improvements in mental health and wellbeing across the entire population may prevent more suicides than targeting only those who are severely depressed or anxious.
Youths with psychiatric disorders, particularly mood disorders, schizophrenia, and substance use should be routinely assessed for suicide risk and receive high-intensity, evidence-based treatments for suicidality, such...
The proportion of high school students identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning (LGBQ) doubled from 2009 to 2017, while the LGBQ teen rate of attempted...
To reduce the high risk of suicide after hospital attendance for self-harm, improved clinical management is needed for all patients - including comprehensive assessment of the...
It is vital that parents, teachers and other trusted adults start conversations about mental health early, and pay even closer attention during the school year, as...
Up to 18% of preadolescents have ideas of suicide, with the main risk factors including depressive symptoms, anxiety and compulsive obsessive disorder.
Homosexual, bisexual and transgender youth tend to have a higher risk for suicide-related thoughts and behaviors, but research on interventions to prevent suicide among sexual and...
Red13 recalls the many times - since after he tested HIV positive - when he considered ending his life once and for all. But he now...
