Hump Day!
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Today is Wednesday, also known as Hump Day! Most of us see this as the beginning of the end of the work week. We are finally at the top and now it is all downhill to the weekend.
Mental health is also an everyday issue we are faced with, always climbing a hill, hoping to one day reach the top and recover as we go down the hill on the other side.
Today, CNN published an article titled "A suicide attempt in an Army unit can lead to more, study finds" by By Jacqueline Howard, CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/26/health/military-suicide-attempts-study/index.html.
It is necessary to stay informed on the issues causing people to commit the act of suicide. The article was based on a study published by JAMA titled , "Risk of Suicide Attempt Among Soldiers in Army Units With a History of Suicide Attempts" by Robert J. Ursano, MD1; Ronald C. Kessler, PhD2; James A. Naifeh, PhD1; et al.
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2645496
Today is Wednesday, also known as Hump Day! Most of us see this as the beginning of the end of the work week. We are finally at the top and now it is all downhill to the weekend.
Mental health is also an everyday issue we are faced with, always climbing a hill, hoping to one day reach the top and recover as we go down the hill on the other side.
Today, CNN published an article titled "A suicide attempt in an Army unit can lead to more, study finds" by By Jacqueline Howard, CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/26/health/military-suicide-attempts-study/index.html.
It is necessary to stay informed on the issues causing people to commit the act of suicide. The article was based on a study published by JAMA titled , "Risk of Suicide Attempt Among Soldiers in Army Units With a History of Suicide Attempts" by Robert J. Ursano, MD1; Ronald C. Kessler, PhD2; James A. Naifeh, PhD1; et al.
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2645496
Standardized Risk Estimates (SREs) of Suicide Attempt by Number of Past-Year Unit Suicide Attempts and Military Occupational Specialty (MOS)
The SREs (number of soldiers who attempted suicide per 100 000 person-years) were calculated assuming other predictors were at their sample-wide means. The SREs were calculated separately for each MOS based on logistic regression models that included basic sociodemographic and service-related variables (sex, age at entry into the army, current age, race/ethnicity, educational level, marital status, time in service, deployment status, unit size, and number of past-year unit suicide attempts) and included a dummy predictor variable for calendar month and year to control for secular trends.
Figure 2.
Standardized Risk Estimates (SREs) of Suicide Attempt by Number of Past-Year Unit Suicide Attempts and Unit Size
The SREs (number of soldiers who attempted suicide per 100 000 person-years) were calculated assuming other predictors were at their sample-wide means. The SREs were calculated separately for each unit size based on logistic regression models that included basic sociodemographic and service-related variables (sex, age at entry into the army, current age, race/ethnicity, educational level, marital status, time in service, deployment status, military occupation, and number of past-year unit suicide attempts) and included a dummy predictor variable for calendar month and year to control for secular trends.
Table 1.
Univariate and Multivariate Association of Unit Suicide Attempts With Suicide Attempts Among Regular Army, Enlisted Soldiersa
Table 2.
Multivariate Associations of Unit Suicide Attempts With Suicide Attempt Among Regular Army, Enlisted Soldiers Stratified by Military Occupationa
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