A new study finds that after 2007, girls have been dying by suicide at a faster pace than boys, closing a gap in suicide rates.
Teen suicide trends have long shown differences between the sexes: While girls have been more likely to attempt suicide, boys have died by suicide at higher rates. This disparity, however, may be getting smaller.
The authors of the study from Nationwide Children’s Hospital explained that the narrowing of the gap was related to changes in the method of suicide. Whereas girls had been more likely to die by suicide from poisoning in the past, the study’s findings suggested they had shifted to more lethal means, including suffocation and hanging.
The researchers discovered the trend after looking at data on over 85,000 teen suicides that occurred between 1975 and 2016.
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