Fatal self-injury in the United States, 1999–2018: Unmasking a national mental health crisis

Autor: Ian R.H. Rockett, Eric D. Caine, Aniruddha Banerjee, Bina Ali, Ted Miller, Hilary S. Connery, Vijay O. Lulla, Kurt B. Nolte, G. Luke Larkin, Steven Stack, Brian Hendricks, R. Kathryn McHugh, Franklin M.M. White, Shelly F. Greenfield, Amy S.B. Bohnert, Jeralynn S. Cossman, Gail D'Onofrio, Lewis S. Nelson, Paul S. Nestadt, James H. Berry, Haomiao Jia
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: EClinicalMedicine, Vol 32, Iss , Pp 100741- (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2589-5370
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100741
Popis: Background: Suicides by any method, plus ‘nonsuicide’ fatalities from drug self-intoxication (estimated from selected forensically undetermined and ‘accidental’ deaths), together represent self-injury mortality (SIM)—fatalities due to mental disorders or distress. SIM is especially important to examine given frequent undercounting of suicides amongst drug overdose deaths. We report suicide and SIM trends in the United States of America (US) during 1999–2018, portray interstate rate trends, and examine spatiotemporal (spacetime) diffusion or spread of the drug self-intoxication component of SIM, with attention to potential for differential suicide misclassification. Methods: For this state-based, cross-sectional, panel time series, we used de-identified manner and underlying cause-of-death data for the 50 states and District of Columbia (DC) from CDC's Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research. Procedures comprised joinpoint regression to describe national trends; Spearman's rank-order correlation coefficient to assess interstate SIM and suicide rate congruence; and spacetime hierarchical modelling of the ‘nonsuicide’ SIM component. Findings: The national annual average percentage change over the observation period in the SIM rate was 4.3% (95% CI: 3.3%, 5.4%; p6.0% increase (p
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