Citation

Conner KR, McCarthy MD, Bajorska A, Caine ED, Tu XM, Knox KL. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2012; 42(6): 699-708.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA; VISN2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Canandaigua VA Medical Center, Canandaigua, NY, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1943-278X.2012.00125.x

PMID

23094649

Abstract

There are meager prospective data from nonclinical samples on the link between anxiety disorders and suicide or the extent to which the association varies over time. We examined these issues in a cohort of 309,861 U.S. Air Force service members, with 227 suicides over follow-up. Mental disorder diagnoses including anxiety, mood, and substance-use disorders (SUD) were based on treatment encounters. Risk for suicide associated with anxiety disorders were lower compared with mood disorders and similar to SUD. Moreover, the associations between mood and anxiety disorders with suicide were greatest within a year of treatment presentation.

Language: en