A new study reveals that suicide is a growing problem in America, and it's especially problematic among young people, the UPI website reports today (March 11, 2019).
Some 30 percent of youth between ages 10 and 12 who visited emergency rooms for either physical or psychiatric treatment screened positive for suicide risk, according to a study published today in Hospital Pediatrics.
And among the preteens who visited the emergency room only for psychiatric problems, 54 percent showed a suicide risk, and more than 17 percent in that group had attempted suicide in the past.
"Typically, suicidal thoughts and behaviors are seen in older teens. It was troubling to see that so many preteens screened positive for suicide risk, and we were alarmed to find that many of them had acted on their suicidal thoughts in the past," said Lisa Horowitz, a clinical scientist in the National Institutes of Mental Health and study author, in a new release.
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