Pre-enlistment as well as immediate post-enlistment mental health status may help identify suicide risk in soldiers both with and without prior mental health diagnoses, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
“History of mental health diagnosis (MH-Dx) is among the most common risk factors for medically documented [suicide attempts] among soldiers,” James Naifeh, PhD, of the department of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Maryland, and colleagues wrote. “However, more than one-third of soldiers who attempt suicide have not