Trends in suicidal behaviour and use of mental health services in Canadian military and civilian populations

J Sareen, TO Afifi, T Taillieu, K Cheung, S Turner… - CMAJ, 2016 - Can Med Assoc
Background: In the context of the Canadian mission in Afghanistan, substantial media
attention has been placed on mental health and lack of access to treatment among …

Suicidal behaviors and the use of mental health services among active duty Army soldiers

JBA McKibben, CS Fullerton… - Psychiatric …, 2014 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective US Army personnel experience a significant mental health burden, particularly
during times of war and multiple deployments. This study identified rates of suicidality …

Roles of physical and mental health in suicidal ideation in Canadian Armed Forces Regular Force veterans

JM Thompson, MA Zamorski, J Sweet, L VanTil… - Canadian journal of …, 2014 - Springer
OBJECTIVES: Suicide in recent veterans is an international concern. An association
between mental disorders and suicide has been established, but less information is …

Time-varying associations of suicide with deployments, mental health conditions, and stressful life events among current and former US military personnel: a …

YC Shen, JM Cunha, TV Williams - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background US military suicides have increased substantially over the past decade and
currently account for almost 20% of all military deaths. We investigated the associations of a …

Are Canadian soldiers more likely to have suicidal ideation and suicide attempts than Canadian civilians?

SL Belik, MB Stein, GJG Asmundson… - American journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Significant controversy exists as to whether soldiers are at increased risk for suicide and
suicidal behaviors compared with civilians. Furthermore, little is known about whether risk …

Mental health risk factors for suicides in the US Army, 2007–8

KE Bachynski, M Canham-Chervak… - Injury …, 2012 - injuryprevention.bmj.com
Objective Suicides among active duty US Army personnel have been increasing since 2004,
surpassing comparable civilian rates in 2008. This analysis uses US military data to assess …

[HTML][HTML] Factors protecting against the development of suicidal ideation in military veterans

RH Pietrzak, BL Pitts, I Harpaz‐Rotem… - World …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The growing rate of suicide among military veterans is a critical public health concern1, 2.
Accordingly, there is an urgent need to better identify at-risk veterans and provide early …

A description of suicides in the Army National Guard during 2007–2014 and associated risk factors

J Griffith - Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Suicide, due to its increased occurrence in recent years, has been a chief concern of the US
military. While there have been many published studies on the topic, conspicuously absent …

Prevalence comparison of past-year mental disorders and suicidal behaviours in the Canadian Armed Forces and the Canadian general population

C Rusu, MA Zamorski, D Boulos… - The Canadian Journal …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Military personnel in Canada and elsewhere have been found to have higher
rates of certain mental disorders relative to their corresponding general populations …

Suicidal ideation, suicidal attempts, and self‐harm in the UK Armed Forces

N Jones, ML Sharp, A Phillips… - Suicide and Life …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction In the UK military, suicide is infrequent and studies of self‐harm behavior in this
population are rare. Objectives To compare lifetime self‐harm rates estimated on three …