Estimating the association between mental health disorders and suicide: a review of common sources of bias and challenges and opportunities for US-based research

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• Alternative Title:
  Curr Epidemiol Rep
• Personal Author:
  Caves Sivaraman, Josie J. ; Naumann, Rebecca B.
• Description:
  Purpose of review:
  
  The purpose of this review is to 1) illuminate prevalent methodological approaches and estimates of association between mental health diagnoses and suicide from the meta-analytic literature; 2) discuss key internal and external validity concerns with these estimates; and 3) highlight some of the unique attributes and challenges in US-based suicide research and opportunities to move the evidence base forward.
  
  Recent findings:
  
  Globally, there is considerable variability in measures of association between mental health disorders and suicide and a growing debate over methodological approaches to this research. A high suicide incidence makes the US an outlier, and the decentralized nature of US administrative data poses a unique challenge to data linkage that could otherwise advance this research.
  
  Summary:
  
  We offer methodological considerations for future research and discuss opportunities made possible by the recent expansion of the US National Violent Death Reporting System to a nationwide registry.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Mental Health Suicidal Ideation Suicide/psychology
• Keywords:
  Generalizability Mental Health Disorder Suicide Validity
• Source:
  Curr Epidemiol Rep. 7(4):352-362
• Pubmed ID:
  33948425
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8092021
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R49 CE002479/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; T32 HS000032/HS/AHRQ HHSUnited States/
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:36a08bad4de7e9566a6361c0d163248917ec5375600e062bf8e096dcb95fc9f3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/105952/cdc_105952_DS1.pdf
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