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Greydanus DE, Nazeer A, Qayyum Z, Patel DR, Rausch R, Hoang LN, Miller C, Chahin S, Apple RW, Saha G, Prasad Rao G, Javed A. Pediatric suicide: Review of a preventable tragedy. Dis Mon 2024; 70:101725. [PMID: 38480023 DOI: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2024.101725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/07/2024]
Abstract
Concepts of suicide are explored in this issue with a focus on suicide in children and adolescents. The epidemiology of pediatric suicide in the United States is reviewed; also, risk and protective factors, as well as prevention strategies, are discussed. Suicide in the pediatric athlete and the potential protective effect of exercise are examined. In addition, this analysis addresses the beneficial role of psychological management as well as current research on pharmacologic treatment and brain stimulation procedures as part of comprehensive pediatric suicide prevention. Though death by suicide in pediatric persons has been and remains a tragic phenomenon, there is much that clinicians, other healthcare professionals, and society itself can accomplish in the prevention of pediatric suicide as well as the management of suicidality in our children and adolescents.
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Affiliation(s)
- Donald E Greydanus
- Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University, Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, United States.
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- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Sidra Medicine/Weill Cornell Medicine, Doha, Qatar
| | - Zheala Qayyum
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University, Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Psychology, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University, Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
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- Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
| | - Caroline Miller
- Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
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- Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Psychology, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University, Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
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- Immediate Past President of the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Psychiatric Federation (SPF), India
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- President, Asian Federation of Psychiatric Association (AFPA), India
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- Chairman Pakistan Psychiatric Research Centre, Immediate Past President of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), Pakistan
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