Suicide Screening Tools for Pediatric Emergency Department Patients: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicidality and suicidal behavior among youth continues to increase significantly each year. Many of those who die by suicide interact with health services in the year before death. This systematic review sought to identify and describe empirically tested screening tools for suicidality in youth presenting to Emergency Departments (ED).

Objective

(1) To identify and compare existing tools used to screen for suicidality in children and adolescents who present to the ED and (2) to ascertain the prevalence of suicidality in pediatric populations found with these tools.

Methods

We searched Ovid Medline, CINAHL, Scopus, and Cochrane databases for primary research studies that identified and evaluated s

SUBMITTER: Scudder A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9314735 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature