NURS 3130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempt, Mental Disorder
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Suicide is one of the major health problems in the united states, accounting for over 41,000 deaths each year. Suicide rates have increased 24% from 1999 to 2014 for all ages 10 to 74. The public health problem of suicidal behavior is so important that several goals stated inhealthy people. 2010 and retained in healthy people 2020 directly target the reduction of deaths by suicide (curtin, Warner, & hedegaard, 2016; u. s. department of health and human services [u. s. dhhs], 2014). Most people who die by suicide have a mental disorder or emotional problem with depression as the most common underlying disorder (mha, 2016). Keyconcepts suicide is the voluntary act of killing oneself. It is a fatal, self-inflicted destructive act with explicit or inferred intent to die. The term suicidality refers to all suicide-related behaviors and thoughts of completing or attempting suicide and suicide ideation. suicidal ideation is thinking about and planning one"s own death.
