Longitudinal courses of suicidal ideation in U.S. military veterans: a 7-year population-based, prospective cohort study

CONCLUSION: Nearly one-in-five veterans reported SI over a 7-year period, most of whom evidenced new onset or remitted SI courses. Chronic and remitted SI may represent particularly high-risk SI courses; the former was associated with higher rates of prospective SA, and psychiatric and physical distress, and the latter with increased likelihood of prior SA, and isolation from social and mental health supports. Physical disability, MDD/PTSD, and recent stressors may be important precipitating or maintaining factors of SI, while social connectedness may be a key target for suicide prevention efforts.PMID:33602367 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291721000301

Source: Psychological Medicine - February 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sarah Herzog Jack Tsai Brandon Nichter Lorig Kachadourian Ilan Harpaz-Rotem Robert H Pietrzak Source Type: research