Recent release from prison is a significant risk factor suicide
最近審查：14.06.2024
所有iLive內容都經過醫學審查或事實檢查，以確保盡可能多的事實準確性。
我們有嚴格的採購指南，只鏈接到信譽良好的媒體網站，學術研究機構，並儘可能與醫學同行評審的研究相關聯。 請注意括號中的數字（[1]，[2]等）是這些研究的可點擊鏈接。
如果您認為我們的任何內容不准確，已過時或有疑問，請選擇它並按Ctrl + Enter。
Prisoners released from prison are nine times more likely to commit suicide over the next year compared to people who have never been incarcerated, new research shows.
"Suicide prevention efforts should focus on people who spent at least one night in jail in the past year," concluded the team led by Ted Miller, a senior fellow at the Institute for Research and Evaluation in Beltsville, Maryland.
For the study, researchers combined data from 10 different studies of mortality rates among previously incarcerated adults. They used this data to estimate the suicide rate among the nearly 7.1 million adults who were released from prison at least once in 2019.
Researchers found that former prisoners had a nine times greater risk of death by suicide within one year of release and a seven times greater risk of death by suicide within two years of release. People recently released from prison account for approximately 20% of all adult suicides, despite making up only about 3% of the total adult population.
Researchers have noted that adults are often arrested during a mental health crisis.
It is now possible for health systems to link prison release data with patient medical records, allowing efforts to be targeted to patients who have recently been released, the researchers noted.
"Focused suicide prevention efforts could reach a significant number of formerly incarcerated adults during the two years when the likelihood of death by suicide is highest," the researchers concluded in a press release from the American Psychiatric Association.
The results of the work are described in detail in an article published in the JAMA Network Open.