Healio (4/14, Gramigna) reports, “Nurses in the United States had a significantly increased risk for suicide compared with the general population,” investigators concluded after using “the National Violent Death Reporting System to analyze U.S. data of 159,372 suicides between 2007 and 2018.” Next, the researchers “created sex-specific suicide incidence estimates for nurses, physicians and the general population of those aged 30 years or older using workforce denominators.”
HealthDay (4/14) reports the study “determined that the suicide incidence among nurses was 17.1 per 100,000, compared to 8.6 per 100,000 among women in the general public, a doubling of risk.” The findingswere published online April 14 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
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— “Nurses at significantly increased suicide risk compared with general U.S. population “Joe Gramigna, Healio, April 14, 2021