The associations between state veteran population rates,handgun legislation,and statewide suicide rates |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division of Pediatric Urology, Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, 705 Riley Hospital Dr., Suite 4230, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA;2. Division of Pediatric Urology, Urology Department at Alexandria School of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt;1. Department of Experimental Neurodegeneration, Center for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain, Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany;2. Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany;1. Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States;2. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, United States;3. VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States;4. Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States;5. National Center for PTSD, White River Junction, VT, United States;6. VA Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health, San Diego, CA, United States;7. National Center for PTSD, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, United States;8. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States;1. National Center for PTSD, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California;2. Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California;3. National MST Support Team, VA Mental Health Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, Menlo Park, California;4. VA Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center, Office of Mental Health Operations, Department of Veterans Affairs, Ann Arbor, Michigan;5. VA Center for Clinical Management Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan;6. Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan;1. TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, 23 Hongda Street, Tianjin 300457, China;2. N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation;3. The Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China;4. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, Tianjin, China;5. State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China |
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| Abstract: | BackgroundWithin the US, veterans exhibit an elevated suicide rate, with firearms serving as the most common method. Research has demonstrated that several state laws regulating handgun ownership are associated with lower suicide rates.MethodPublically available databases were utilized to extract relevant data.ResultsStatewide veteran population rates (per 100,000) predicted overall suicide rates, firearm suicide rates, and the proportion of suicides by firearms. Furthermore, the association between veteran population and overall suicide rate was largely explained by the elevated proportion of suicides by firearms in states with higher veteran populations. Lastly, results demonstrated states without handgun legislation in place exhibited higher veteran populations.ConclusionsFindings indicate veterans may impact statewide suicide rates through their propensity to use firearms as their method and that the tendency for veterans to live in states without handgun legislation may exacerbate this phenomenon. |
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| Keywords: | Suicide Military Firearms Veterans |
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