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| * 50% of individuals who complete suicide have no prior history of suicide attempts. | * 50% of individuals who complete suicide have no prior history of suicide attempts. | ||
| * Not all people who die by suicide have a psychiatric disorder. | * Not all people who die by suicide have a psychiatric disorder. | ||
| - | * In Western high-income countries, the percentage of those who die by suicide with no psychiatric disorder is estimated to be between 5% and 40%.[([[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38381442/|Oquendo, M. A., Wall, M., Wang, S., Olfson, M., & Blanco, C. (2024). Lifetime suicide attempts in otherwise psychiatrically healthy individuals. JAMA psychiatry.]])] | + | * In Western high-income countries, the percentage of those who die by suicide with no psychiatric disorder is estimated to be between 5% and 40%. More robust studies estimate this to be at 20%.[([[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38381442/|Oquendo, M. A., Wall, M., Wang, S., Olfson, M., & Blanco, C. (2024). Lifetime suicide attempts in otherwise psychiatrically healthy individuals. JAMA psychiatry.]])] |
| * There has been no improvement of accuracy of predicting suicides in the past 40 years, despite other advances in medicine, which speaks to the complexity of suicide as an outcome. | * There has been no improvement of accuracy of predicting suicides in the past 40 years, despite other advances in medicine, which speaks to the complexity of suicide as an outcome. | ||