Statistical Methods Inform Suicide Prevention Planning

Abstract

To help the National Guard Bureau (NGB) decide how suicide prevention funding and programs would best be distributed among U.S. states and territories, IDA researchers conducted quantitative analyses of suicide rates in the U.S. Army National Guard (ARNG) and the U.S. general population (GP). They discovered that differences in age, sex, and geographic distribution explain much of the higher suicide risk in the ARNG relative to the GP.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1146323

Entities

People

  • Dina Eliezer
  • James M. Bishop

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Business Administration
  • Communities
  • Deployment
  • Employment
  • Geographic Distribution
  • Military Tactics
  • National Guard
  • Risk Factors
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.

Technology Areas

  • Space