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

Title

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

Creator

Rockett IRH; Caine ED; Banerjee A; Ali B; Miller T; Connery HS; Lulla VO; Nolte KB; Larkin GL; Stack S; Hendricks B; McHugh RK; White FMM; Greenfield SF; Bohnert ASB; Cossman JS; D'Onofrio G; Nelson LS; Nestadt PS; Berry JH; Jia H

Publisher

EClinicalMedicine

Date

2021
2021-02-01

Description

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.

Subject

Mental health; Mortality; Prevention; Mental disorders; Drugs; Injury; Suicide; Poisoning; Substance misuse

Format

journalArticle

URL Address

http://doi.org/

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Volume

32

ISSN

2589-5370

NEOMED College

NEOMED College of Medicine

NEOMED Department

Department of Emergency Medicine

Update Year & Number

March 2021 List

Affiliated Hospital

Summa Health System Akron City Hospital

Citation

Rockett IRH; Caine ED; Banerjee A; Ali B; Miller T; Connery HS; Lulla VO; Nolte KB; Larkin GL; Stack S; Hendricks B; McHugh RK; White FMM; Greenfield SF; Bohnert ASB; Cossman JS; D'Onofrio G; Nelson LS; Nestadt PS; Berry JH; Jia H, “Fatal self-injury in the United States, 1999–2018: Unmasking a national mental health crisis,” NEOMED Bibliography Database, accessed September 8, 2024, https://neomed.omeka.net/items/show/11595.