Association Between Medical Diagnoses and Suicide in a Medicaid Beneficiary Population, North Carolina 2014-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Firearms are used in about half of U.S. suicides. This study investigated how various medical diagnoses are associated with firearm and nonfirearm suicide.

Methods

We used a case-control design including n = 691 North Carolina Medicaid beneficiaries who died from suicide between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2017 as cases. We selected a total of n = 68,682 controls (~1:100 case-control ratio from North Carolina Medicaid member files using incidence density sampling methods). We linked Medicaid claims to the North Carolina Violent Death Reporting System to ascertain suicide and means (firearm or nonfirearm). We matched cases and controls on number of months covered by Medicaid over the past 36 months. Analyses adjusted for sex, race, age, Supplemental Security Inc

SUBMITTER: Sivaraman JJC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10281339 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature