Emergency room visits for children who had thoughts of suicide or hadattempted suicide have doubled in the past decade, according to a nationallyrepresentative study released Monday
Emergency room visits for children who had thoughts of suicide or had attempted suicide have doubled in the past decade, according to a nationally representative study released Monday.
“These numbers are very alarming,” study author Dr. Brett Burstein, an emergency department physician at the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, told HuffPost. “Not only was there doubling over the study period; we also found in this broad, nationally representative sample that there is a high proportion — more than had been previously identified — that are presenting at a very young age group.
The discrepancy is because the latest investigation looked at hospital records from general emergency departments that serve both adults and children, as opposed to children who were taken to emergency departments in pediatric hospitals. It is not yet clear why suicidal thoughts and attempts appear to have increased so markedly over the past decade, and it is most likely that many factors are at play.
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