Healio (2/11, Herpen) reported, “A variety of social and environmental factors are crucial to assess rates of self-injury mortality [SIM] and suicide,” investigators concluded in a study that “utilized a partial panel time series with underlying cause-of-death data in 101,325 SIMs from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., for the intervals of 1999 to 2000, 2007 to 2008, 2013 to 2014 and 2018 to 2019, which included all suicides, accidental and undetermined drug intoxication deaths and self-harm behaviors.” The findings were published online Feb. 9 in JAMA Network Open. They “ identified 8 factors associated with the SIM rate in 2018-2019: centralized medical examiner system (β = 4.362), labor underutilization rate (β = 0.728), manufacturing employment (β = −0.056), homelessness rate (β = −0.125), percentage nonreligious (β = 0.041), non-Hispanic White race and ethnicity (β = 0.087), prescribed opioids for 30 days or more (β = 0.117), and percentage without health insurance (β = −0.013) and 5 factors associated with the suicide rate: percentage male (β = 1.046), military veteran (β = 0.747), rural (β = 0.031), firearm ownership (β = 0.030), and pain reliever misuse (β = 1.131).
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— “Social, environmental factors key to assessing rates of self-injury mortality and suicide “Robert Herpen, Healio , February 11, 2022