Suicide Cases Increasingly Common in Children's Hospitals, Study Finds

Suicide Increasingly Common in Children's Hospitals... NASHVILLE — With depression and anxiety rates rapidly increasing among younger individuals, there has also been a concurrent dramatic increase in hospitalizations due to thoughts of suicide and self-harm, a new study finds. Researchers at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee looked at data from 32 children’s hospitals across the U.S., identifying inpatient and emergency visits between 2008 and 2015 by those between the ages of five and 17. A new study finds that the number of cases of children being hospitalized due to suicidal thoughts or self-harm has risen dramatically since 2008. Narrowing down their focus on diagnoses of suicidality and self-harm in these institutions, the researchers found that these types of visits had more than doubled over the period examined: from 0.67 percent of total visits in 2008 to 1.79 percent of total visits in 2015. More than 118,000 hospitalizations were reported as a result of suicidal inclinations. A slight majority of patients who demonstrated suicidal thoughts or actions were between the ages of 15 and 17 (59,631 visits), while an additional 37 percent (43,682) were found to be between
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