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Suicide Among Adolescents and Teens Increased in 14 States

New research reveals that child and teen suicides rose in over a dozen states during the COVID-19 pandemic. A research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics this week found the proportion of suicide among adolescents increased in 14 states during the pandemic. This was not the first time healthcare professionals have sounded the alarm that poor mental health among young people has become a national state of emergency.

According to The Hill, researchers from Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Boston Children’s Hospital analyzed death certificates of people who died by suicide in 14 states and compared the data from 2020 to the numbers of suicides recorded from 2015 to 2019.

They found that the total number of adolescent deaths rose in Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Virginia, and California during the first year of the pandemic. In Montana and Alaska, the total count and proportion of adolescent suicides decreased. In the six remaining states, Arkansas, Connecticut, Colorado, Nebraska, Ohio and Vermont, data was also examined and when the numbers were aggregated across all 14 states, the researchers found an overall increase in adolescent suicide rates, says The Hill. The results showed that adolescents accounted for a larger share in all suicides in 2020, about 6.5 %, compared to 5.9% during the previous five years, according to NBC News.

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