Florida BH IMPACT - December Newsletter
In our December Newsletter, learn about the upcoming Perinatal Mental Health Conference, Florida BH IMPACT resources, and recent findings about suicidality in childbearing individuals. Click here to view the December newsletter.
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JAMA Psychiatry recently published a study that characterized suicidality trends among childbearing individuals in the United States between 2006-2017. Admon et al. conducted a Maternal Behavioral Health Policy Evaluation, which included 595,237 commercially insured individuals between 15 and 44 years of age.
Key findings include:
- Diagnoses of suicidality increased from 0.2% per 100 individuals in 2006 to 0.6% per 100 individuals in 2017.
- The diagnosis of suicidality with comorbid depression or anxiety increased from 1.2% per 100 individuals in 2006 to 2.6% per 100 individuals in 2017.
- Diagnoses of depression and/or anxiety increased over the study period from 12.1% per 100 individuals in 2006 to 20.9% per 100 individuals in 2017.
Researchers found that Non-Hispanic Black individuals, those with low-income, younger individuals, and those with comorbid anxiety, depression, or other serious mental illness, had larger escalations in suicidality between 2006-2017. This study's limitations include that it only utilized data from a single large commercial insurance provider. There has also been an increase in screening measures and awareness over the study period. These limitations suggest that these estimates in suicidality trends are conservative.
The Zero Suicide Toolkit provides a great framework for improving suicide care in health care settings.
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