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U.S. Military Should Improve Behavioral Health Programs in Response to Rising Number of Suicides

U.S. military officials should improve efforts to identify those at risk and improve both the quality and access to behavioral health treatment in response to a sharp rise in suicide among members of the nation's armed forces.

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PERIODICAL

Calls of Duty: America Weighs Its Obligations to Veterans and Their Families — May 11, 2012

Ten RAND authors highlight seven ways in which the United States can help to ensure that veterans and their families receive health care, employment and education opportunities, and other benefits.

REPORT

Suicide Prevention Efforts and Behavioral Health Treatment in the Veterans Health Administration — Dec 2, 2011

Testimony presented before the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Health on December 2, 2011.

COMMENTARY

Honor Military Suicide Victims by Preventing More Deaths — May 29, 2011

Not only would the delivery of quality behavioral care prevent suicides, but it would also aid in the recovery of the nearly 20 percent of service members with post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, writes Rajeev Ramchand.

MULTIMEDIA

The War Within: Preventing Suicide in the U.S. Military — May 10, 2011

In this May 2011 Congressional Briefing, behavioral scientist Rajeev Ramchand presents RAND research and analysis on recent increases in suicides among members of the U.S. military.

RESEARCH BRIEF

The War Within: Suicide Prevention in the U.S. Military — Feb 17, 2011

The increasing number of suicides is causing concern in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Suicide-prevention programs in DoD and across the services have some (but not all) of the characteristics of comprehensive programs.

NEWS RELEASE

U.S. Military Should Improve Behavioral Health Programs in Response to Rising Number of Suicides Among Armed Forces — Feb 17, 2011

U.S. military officials should improve efforts to identify those at-risk and improve both the quality and access to behavioral health treatment in response to a sharp rise in suicide among members of nation's armed forces.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Suicidality, Ethnicity and Immigration in the USA — Dec 31, 2010

Although Whites are more likely than Blacks, Asians or Hispanics to think about committing suicide, actual suicide attempts are equally common among all groups except Asians, who are less likely to attempt it.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Suicide Risk Management: Development and Analysis of a Telephone-Based Approach to Patient Safety — Dec 31, 2010

A telephone screener for suicide risk can be used during data collection interviews with depressed patients to identify those who need clinical intervention.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

School Personnel Perspectives on Their School's Implementation of a School-Based Suicide Prevention Program — Dec 31, 2009

This study of a district-wide suicide prevention program found that schools whose implementation focused on at-risk students had better results.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Suicide Among Discharged Psychiatric Inpatients in the Department of Veterans Affairs — Dec 31, 2007

Gun ownership rates, state legislation, and levels of community cohesiveness are significantly associated with the likelihood of psychiatric patients committing suicide with a gun, as well as being male, Caucasian, and diagnosed with substance abuse.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

A Prospective Investigation of Suicide Ideation, Attempts, and Use of Mental Health Service Among Adolescents in Substance Abuse Treatment — Dec 31, 2007

This study examined suicide ideation, attempts, and subsequent mental health service among a sample of 948 youth from substance abuse treatment facilities across the United States.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Who Gets Care? Mental Health Service Use Following a School-Based Suicide Prevention Program — Dec 31, 2006

Examine symptomatology and mental health service use following students' contact with a large urban school district's suicide prevention program.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Mental Health Service Delivery and Suicide Risk: The Role of Individual Patient and Facility Factors — Dec 31, 2004

Suicide rates are not likely to be a useful indicator of the quality of mental health care because of the instability of suicide rates, difficulty collecting data, and the lack of association between suicide and facility quality of care. The lack of association with facility-level variables suggests that systemic changes in these performance measures would be unlikely to significantly reduce suicide rates.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Suicide Prevention in Schools: Are We Reaching Minority Youths? — Dec 31, 2002

This study sought to better understand program participants. The authors examined randomly selected records from 1999 for 100 youths who received services from the program. Their review of records from the Los Angeles program suggests that Latino students may be underidentified by such a program.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Moral and Practical Challenges of Physician-Assisted Suicide — Dec 31, 2002

Physicians play an inescapable role in presenting and shaping health care decisions. Patients and families find it essential to rely on physicians when fear, lack of information, unfamiliarity, and other factors limit their independence and authority. Legalizing PAS threatens to make patients and families suspicious at a time when they would like to rely on a trusting relationship with their physician.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Insulin Sensitivity Markers: Predictors of Accidents and Suicides in Helsinki Heart Study Screenees — Dec 31, 2001

Evaluates whether elements signifying relative insulin sensitivity (IS) were prospectively linked to accidents and suicides in 14,976 Helsinki Heart Study (HHS) screenees.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Vulnerable People: Practical Rejoinders to Claims in Favor of Assisted Suicide — Dec 31, 2001

Argues that nine of the most common and most compelling arguments for legalizing physician-assisted suicide are unpersuasive or misleading.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts in General Medical Illnesses — Dec 31, 1999

This study examines the association between the presence of a general medical illness and suicidality in a representative sample of US young adults. Between 1988 and 1994, 7589 individuals aged 17 to 39 years were administered the Diagnostic Interview Schedule as part of a national probability survey.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Homicides and Suicides of World War II: A Critical Analysis of 656 Homicides and 1179 Suicides — Dec 31, 1959

This study demonstrated that military homicides and suicides tended to conform to certain patterns resembling in many respects those of civilian groups.

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