Association of US nurse and physician occupation with risk of suicide
JAMA Jun 09, 2021
Davis MA, Cher BAY, Friese CR, et al. - This study attempted to calculate the national incidence of suicide among nurses and examine characteristics of nurse suicides compared with physicians and the general population. Between 2007 and 2018, researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study using US data from 159,372 suicides reported in the National Violent Death Reporting System. They distinguished a total of 2,374 suicides among nurses (1912 women [80.5%]; mean [SD] age, 52.8 [11.8] years), 857 suicides among physicians (723 men [84.4%]; mean [SD] age, 59.8 [15.3] years), and 156 141 suicides in the general population (121 483 men [77.8%]; mean [SD] age, 53.1 [14.7] years). This study’s findings demonstrate that the risk of suicide compared with the general population was significantly greater for nurses but not for physicians in the US. There is a need for further study to evaluate if interventions would be correlated with benefit in reducing suicide risk among nurses.
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