Health care workers overall face a higher risk for suicide, especially registered nurses, health care support workers and health technicians, according to the results of research published in JAMA.
Mark Olfson, MD, MPH, the Elizabeth K Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law and a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, told Healio that “suicide deaths are tragic yet preventable events that devastate family members, friends and sometimes entire communities,” and knowledge of who is at a higher risk “can lead to proactive and sometimes