The Washington Post (7/30, Malhi ) reports, “The suicide rate for U.S. children 8 to 12 years old has steadily climbed in the past decade and a half, with a disproportionate rise among girls, data released Tuesday…shows.” The Post adds, “Between 2001 and 2022, 2,241 children ages 8 to 12 – known as preteens – died by suicide,” and “while suicide rates were decreasing until 2007, they increased by about 8 percent each year from 2008 to 2022.” The findings were published in JAMA Network Open.
Reuters (7/30, Sunny) reports researchers “examined U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) records on preteen suicide from 2001 to 2022” and discovered that “suicide was the 5th leading cause of death in girls between 2008 and 2022, moving up from being the 11th leading cause between 2001 and 2007.”
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