USA: Transgender, Gender-Diverse Youth Have Five Times Higher Positive Suicide Screens in ED
Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youth have high rates of positive suicide risk screening in the emergency department, according to a study published online Sept. 4 in Academic Pediatrics.
Amanda Burnside, Ph.D., from the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and colleagues examined the association between gender identity and suicide risk-screening results. The analysis included electronic medical record data from youth (aged 8 to 25 years) emergency department visits with suicide risk screening performed (12,112 individuals; November 2019 to August 2022).
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