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After an initial drop in suicide-related emergency department visits at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are reporting that suspected teenage suicide attempts rose in 2021, with the increase driven by a dramatic uptick among teenage girls.
CDC reports a 51% rise in suicide attempts in teenage girls during pandemic compared to a 4% rise in boys
New CDC study found weekly visits to the emergency department for suspected suicide attempts by teenage girls rose 50.6 percent from 2019 to 2021
The study also found that among boys in the same age group there was a 4 percent rise in suspected suicide attempts over the same time period
The reported suicide attempts for both genders surged during the pandemic, and increased the longer lockdown and social distancing orders were in place
The increase in suspected suicide attempts by young people could be attributed to social distancing, which took away the in-person connections built at school
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Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on suicide deaths for the year 2020 were published in the
Journal
of the American Medical Association (JAMA). According to the new data, deaths by suicide declined from 47,511 to 44,834 (5.6%) between 2019 and 2020.
1 Suicide has reportedly decreased from the tenth to the eleventh leading cause of death as COVID-19 became the third leading cause of death.
We spoke to Dr Christine Yu Moutier, Chief Medical Officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), about this provisional data.
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With a 5.6% decline in US suicide deaths between 2019 and 2020, we spoke with Christine Yu Moutier, MD, CMO for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.