Healio (11/15, Gramigna) reports, “Suicide prevention efforts may need to account for ethnicity because of variation across underrepresented groups,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data of those who died by suicide within 12 months of mental health service contact between 2007 and 2018, with data collection occurring for the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health.” For the study, the team “compared suicide rates and standardized mortality ratios…of 698 South Asian, Black African, Black Caribbean and Chinese patients (69% men; mean age, 41 years) with those of 13,567 white patients (66.6% men; mean age, 48 years).” The study authors concluded, “The important social and clinical differences we found between minority ethnic groups highlights that the one size fits all approach by mental health services might not be fit for purpose.” The findings were published online Nov. 8 in The Lancet Psychiatry.
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— “‘One size fits all’ suicide prevention does not account for ethnic differences “Joe Gramigna, Healio, November 15, 2021