An Examination of Potential Misclassification of Army Suicides: Results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers.

Autor: Cox KL; US Army Public Health Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, MD, USA., Nock MK; Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA., Biggs QM; Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA., Bornemann J; Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA., Colpe LJ; National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA., Dempsey CL; Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA., Heeringa SG; Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA., McCarroll JE; Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA., Ng TH; Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA., Schoenbaum M; National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA., Ursano RJ; Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA., Zhang BG; Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA., Benedek DM; Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Suicide & life-threatening behavior [Suicide Life Threat Behav] 2017 Jun; Vol. 47 (3), pp. 257-265. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Jul 22.
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12280
Abstrakt: Debate continues about the accuracy of military suicide reporting due to concerns that some suicides may be classified as accidents to minimize stigma and ensure survivor benefits. We systematically reviewed records for 998 active duty Army deaths (510 suicides; 488 accident, homicide, and undetermined deaths; 2005-2009) and, using research criteria, reclassified 8.2% of the nonsuicide cases to definite suicide (1), suicide probable (4), or suicide possible (35). The reclassification rate to definite suicide was only 0.2% (1/488). This low rate suggests that flagrant misclassification of Army deaths is uncommon and surveillance reports likely reflect the "true" population of Army suicides.
(© 2016 The American Association of Suicidology.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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