In another measure, the CDC’s national Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey of 2007 ( mmwr) showed that 6.9% of US high school students (grades 9 through 12) had attempted suicide at least once during the 12 months before the survey and 14.5% had seriously considered suicide. Those studies, they added, should involve comprehensive assessment of individual-level exposure and outcome data, because “aggregate data alone cannot establish causal links.” These include the influence of Internet social networking sites, the effects of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan on soldiers returning home, untreated depression in the wake of recent boxed warnings on antidepressants, and access to firearms. The analysis showed 326 more deaths than would have been expected in 2004 and 292 more deaths than expected in 2005 when compared with the number of deaths predicted by the regression model.Ĭoncerned about an emerging crisis, Bridge and associates recommend studies on possible factors that have contributed to the increase in youth suicides. This upward trend persisted in 2005 ( Figure). In a recently published trend analysis, Bridge and colleagues 1 found that after a decade-long decline in the suicide rate among youths aged 10 to 19 years in the United States, there was an 18% increase in suicide rates in 2004. Researchers are reporting significant findings from new studies on suicidal adolescents, particularly those who make multiple attempts. An increasing youth suicide rate may point toward an emerging public health crisis, necessitating national efforts to develop effective interventions, experts recently warned.
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