Suicide Risk Among Veterans Who Receive Evidence-Based Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Kevin G. Saulnier, Stuart Brabbs, Benjamin R. Szymanski, Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, John F. McCarthy, Rebecca K. Sripada · 2024
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Kevin Saulnier and five co-authors ask whether proven talk therapies for posttraumatic stress disorder also lower suicide risk in veterans, in this 2024 study. Suicide rates run high among veterans with the disorder, and the Veterans Health Administration wanted to know if its recommended therapies change that risk. The team followed veterans who received a first PTSD diagnosis between 2016 and 2019.
The cohort held eight hundred forty-seven thousand veterans, and one thousand five hundred fifty-two died by suicide through 2020. Veterans who started one of the two recommended therapies, cognitive processing therapy or prolonged exposure, faced about twenty-three percent lower suicide risk than those who never started. Completing eight or more sessions showed no added link either way. The pattern held when the comparison was limited to veterans who got some therapy. The authors read starting therapy as the step that matters most in these data.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kevin G. Saulnier, Stuart Brabbs, Benjamin R. Szymanski, Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, John F. McCarthy, Rebecca K. Sripada |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |