Research done into more effective methods of suicide prevention in war veterans
Research is currently being carried on the study of factors that contribute to the rate at which veterans of the USA are committing suicide. This research is the biggest of its nature to date that is centred on the rates of suicide among veterans, in parallel to other studies that have been previously conducted on the statistics obtained from data pertaining to the aforementioned rate of suicide in veterans.
Statistical figures have clearly alluded to the fact that roughly eighteen veterans of the United States of America kill themselves through suicide every single day; this has resulted in a large number of death cases yearly. Unfortunately, the rates of suicide among American veterans are continually increasing, due in part to the apparent difficulties faced by soldiers during the change from many years of military to civilian life. The soldiers face complications when attempting to live ordinary lives , this is as a result of the overwhelming horrors of military combat and the sheer amounts of stress they experienced from this.
This research was conducted through collaboration between Joseph Conigliaro from the New York School of medicine, Janet Weiner of Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the assistant professor of Epidemiology; J. Wiebe, PHD and finally Therese S. Richmond from the school of Nursing. These individuals carried out the research by choosing for a central control group of American military veterans who had preciously undertaken in patient treatment as a result of an unsuccessful suicide attempts on their part during the nineteen ninety three to nineteen ninety eight time period. The study was done at a VA (Department of Veterans Affairs) medical institution. The researchers made a subsequent study which was focused on cause of mortality, incident and rate of mortality until the year two thousand and two, this was done in addition to the other information that was obtained from the National Centre of Health and Statistics.
Additional research has indicated that although a large number of veterans have survived from an attempt at suicide, these veterans have never received the support which they so badly required. As a direct result of this, there has been a notable increment in the number of repeat suicide attempts and mortality rates.
Armed with these new discoveries and records, optimism has been expressed by researchers that they might have the ability to produce new programs which would aid in decreasing the tendencies for suicide in veterans at present and those of future years.