Association of Recent Violence Encounters With Suicidal Ideation Among Adolescents With Depression.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Suicide prevention is an important component of depression management. Knowledge about depressed adolescents with increased risk for suicide can inform suicide prevention efforts.

Objective

To describe the risk of documented suicidal ideation within a year following a diagnosis of depression and to examine how the risk of documented suicidal ideation differed by recent violence encounter status among adolescents with new depression diagnoses.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective cohort study in clinical settings including outpatient facilities, emergency departments, and hospitals. Using IBM's Explorys database containing electronic health records from 26 US health care networks, this study observed a cohort of adolescents with new depression dia

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9982692 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature