Although research has identified many suicide risk factors, the relationship between
financial strain and suicide has received less attention. Using data representative of the US …

Introduction Suicide rates and the proportion of alcohol-involved suicides rose during the
2008–2009 recession. Associations between county-level poverty, foreclosures, and …

Background. There are a large number of factors mediating suicide. Many studies have
searched for a direct causal relationship between economic hardship and suicide, however …

Background. Mental disorders amplify suicide risk across the lifecourse, but most people
with mental disorder do not take their own lives. Few controlled studies have examined the …

Research at the individual level on economic strain and suicide has focused on
unemployment; yet it remains unclear how unemployment and other economic strains …

Background Suicide and homelessness share many of the same risk factors, but there is
little understanding of how they are related to each other. Methods Data on 36 155 US …

The aim of the study is to compare the prevalence of suicidal ideation and attempts in the
United States in 1991–1992 and 2001–2002, and identify sociodemographic groups at …

Objective: There are no previous studies describing the correlates of suicide attempts in
individuals with major depressive disorder in a nationally representative sample. This study …

Extant analyses of the relation between economic conditions and population health were
often based on annualized data and were susceptible to confounding by nonlinear time …

General population suvery data are used to disaggregate the associations of substance use
disorders with suicide attempts in order to evaluate a number of hypotheses about the …