Suicide continues to become more common in the United States -- increasing 41% between 1999 and 2016 -- with rural areas hit hardest by this ongoing crisis of despair, a new study reports.
continues to become more common in the United States, with rural areas hit hardest by this ongoing crisis of despair, a new study reports.care all appear to be driving the crisis in rural America, said lead researcher Danielle Steelesmith. She's a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center in Columbus.
To figure out the difference between rural and urban areas, the researchers did a county-by-county analysis of factors that could be driving suicide rates. Mayo Clinic psychiatrist Dr. J. Michael Bostwick noted that the highest suicide rates found in the study occurred in the Mountain West, Appalachia and the Ozarks.
And rural regions tend to have more social fragmentation, with more single-member households, unmarried residents and people drifting in and out of the area, according to the report.These regions also have lower levels of social capital, a measure of the interconnectedness of people through churches, groups and organizations, Steelesmith said.
"If you actually do get lucky enough to get in the office of a trained mental health provider, they aren't necessarily going to be trained in effective approaches for reducing suicide," he said."Right now, mental health treatment is much more available for folks in urban and suburban areas. It's almost impossible to access in our most rural areas of the country."
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