
More Treatment is Needed to Prevent Suicide Among Children
A recent study in Pediatrics (October 2016), “Suicide in Elementary School-Aged Children and Early Adolescents,” complements previous findings in studies and anecdotal observations about childhood suicide.
The children who die by suicide probably:
* Are male
* Are black
* Usually die by hanging, strangulation, suffocation (older children are more likely to kill themselves with firearms)
* Die at home
* Foremost suffer relationship problems with family and/or friends (60 percent)
* Less often suffer from boyfriend/girlfriend stress
* Seldom leave a suicide note (7.7 percent)
* More likely experience attention-deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity (59 percent) and less often are depressed (33 percent) compared with young adolescent decedents.
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