Citation

Logan JE, Skopp NA, Reger MA, Gladden M, Smolenski DJ, Faye Floyd C, Gahm GA. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2014; 45(1): 65-77.

Affiliation

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/sltb.12111

PMID

25093259

Abstract

To help understand suicide among soldiers, we compared suicide events between active duty U.S. Army versus civilian decedents to identify differences and inform military prevention efforts. We linked 141 Army suicide records from 2005 to 2010 to National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) data. We described the decedents' military background and compared their precipitators of death captured in NVDRS to those of demographically matched civilian suicide decedents. Both groups commonly had mental health and intimate partner precipitating circumstances, but soldier decedents less commonly disclosed suicide intent.

Language: en