High short-term risk of attempted suicide in teenagers following parents’ suicide attempt
The risk that young people attempt to commit suicide is highest within two years after a parent has received inpatient care due to a mental disorder or suicide attempt, according to a study of over 15,000 teenagers and young adults. The risk is much higher for teenagers than for young adults. This is reported by a collaborative study between Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Copenhagen University in Denmark, which is published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.Although the incidence of suicide has decreased in Sweden in recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of