Healio (5/9, VanDewater) reports, “Rates of suicidal behavior and ideation increased among high school girls,” investigators from the CDC concluded after analyzing “data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey…collected in 2019 and 2021.” The study revealed that “the percentage of girls reporting past-year suicidal ideation increased from 24.1% in 2019 to 30% in 2021,” with “increases in the percentage of girls who made a suicide plan (19.9% vs. 23.6%) and attempted suicide (11% vs. 13.3%).” In contrast, “the percentage of boys reporting suicidal ideation stayed about the same (13.3% vs. 14.3%), as did the percentage of boys who planned a suicide (11.3% vs. 11.6%), attempted suicide (both 6.6%) and had a suicide attempt requiring medical attention (both 1.7%).” The findings were published online in an April 28 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Supplement.
Related Links:
— “Suicidality increased in certain high schoolers from 2019 to 2021 “Kalie VanDewater, Healio , May 9, 2023