Suicide risk communication and intervention preferences for veterans and service members.

ABSTRACT: Despite the investment of public resources to fight staggering suicide rates among veterans, we know little about how veterans and service members in crisis communicate suicidal ideations, and what interventions they are willing to receive. We aim to identify communication and suicide intervention preferences of veterans and service members in times of crisis. Descriptive statistics were used to explore veterans communication of suicidal ideations. While 89.9% of participants indicated they were willing to speak to someone when having thoughts of suicide, less than 26% of participants indicated they were willing to bring up their thoughts with a crisis line or veterans organization. Rather, they indicate that family members (62.2%) and military friends (51.1%) would be their primary outrea

SUBMITTER: Beatty AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10703287 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature