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

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

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

EClinicalMedicine

2021

2021-02-26

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.

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Journal Article

NEOMED College of Medicine

Department of Emergency Medicine

Jan to Aug list 2021