Suicide rates among young people have continued to soar in recent years, new research has found. The rate among 15- to 24-year-olds climbed in 2017 to its highest point since 2000. An increase was especially seen among 15- to 19-year-olds and young men.
Suicide rates among young people have continued to soar in recent years -- so much so that the rate among 15- to 24-year-olds climbed in 2017 to its highest point since 2000, new research has found.
An increase was especially seen among 15- to 19-year-olds and young men, according to a research paper published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA.The finding hits close to home for the paper's first author, Oren Miron, a research associate at Harvard Medical School.Number of children going to ER with suicidal thoughts, attempts doubles, study finds"In high school, a friend of mine was bullied, and he unfortunately took his life," Miron said.
Some reasons, Kaslow said, could be that family and community structures may not be as tight-knit as in the past, leading to increased risk, or that the increased use of technology has led to young people spending less time on cultivating rich, in-person relationships and more time being exposed to possible cyberbullying.
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