Publication date: Jul 16, 2024
Suicide ranks as a leading cause of premature death among adolescents globally. Understanding the trends and key determinants of suicidal behavior in youth are critical for implementing educational policies and supporting preventive strategies in schools. This retrospective study examined all hospitalizations due to suicidal behavior in children and adolescents aged 11 to 18 years in Spain, using data from the Spanish National Registry of Hospital Discharges spanning 2000 to 2021. Over the 22-year study period, there were 2,015,589 hospitalizations among adolescents in Spain, with 118,609 (5. 9 %) cases involving mental disorders. There were 2855 admissions with suicidal behavior, constituting 2. 4 % of the hospitalizations among youth with mental disorders. Girls represented 73. 4 % of all hospitalizations, with a median age of 16 years. Admissions for suicidal behavior saw a four-fold increase during the last decade (p
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Girls | Adolescents |
| Hospitalizations | Depression |
| Suicide | Mental disorders |
| Psychiatric disorders | |
| Suicide |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | Suicide |
| disease | MESH | premature death |
| disease | MESH | mental disorders |