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A systems science approach to identifying data gaps in national data sources on adolescent suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in the United States

BACKGROUND: Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death among adolescents ages 10–14, and third leading cause of death among adolescents ages 15–19 in the United States (U.S). Although we have numerous U.S. based surveillance systems and survey data sources, the coverage offered by these...

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Autores principales: Giabbanelli, Philippe J., Rice, Ketra L., Nataraj, Nisha, Brown, Margaret M., Harper, Christopher R.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10067278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37005568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15320-8
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author Giabbanelli, Philippe J.
Rice, Ketra L.
Nataraj, Nisha
Brown, Margaret M.
Harper, Christopher R.
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description BACKGROUND: Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death among adolescents ages 10–14, and third leading cause of death among adolescents ages 15–19 in the United States (U.S). Although we have numerous U.S. based surveillance systems and survey data sources, the coverage offered by these data with regard to the complexity of youth suicide had yet to be examined. The recent release of a comprehensive systems map for adolescent suicide provides an opportunity to contrast the content of surveillance systems and surveys with the mechanisms listed in the map. OBJECTIVE: To inform existing data collection efforts and advance future research on the risk and protective factors relevant to adolescent suicide. METHODS: We examined data from U.S. based surveillance systems and nationally-representative surveys that included (1) observations for an adolescent population and (2) questions or indicators in the data that identified suicidal ideation or suicide attempt. Using thematic analysis, we evaluated the codebooks and data dictionaries for each source to match questions or indicators to suicide-related risk and protective factors identified through a recently published suicide systems map. We used descriptive analysis to summarize where data were available or missing and categorized data gaps by social-ecological level. RESULTS: Approximately 1-of-5 of the suicide-related risk and protective factors identified in the systems map had no supporting data, in any of the considered data sources. All sources cover less than half the factors, except the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (ABCD), which covers nearly 70% of factors. CONCLUSIONS: Examining gaps in suicide research can help focus future data collection efforts in suicide prevention. Our analysis precisely identified where data is missing and also revealed that missing data affects some aspects of suicide research (e.g., distal factors at the community and societal level) more than others (e.g., proximal factors about individual characteristics). In sum, our analysis highlights limitations in current suicide-related data availability and provides new opportunities to identify and expand current data collection efforts. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-023-15320-8.
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spelling pubmed-100672782023-04-03 A systems science approach to identifying data gaps in national data sources on adolescent suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in the United States Giabbanelli, Philippe J. Rice, Ketra L. Nataraj, Nisha Brown, Margaret M. Harper, Christopher R. BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death among adolescents ages 10–14, and third leading cause of death among adolescents ages 15–19 in the United States (U.S). Although we have numerous U.S. based surveillance systems and survey data sources, the coverage offered by these data with regard to the complexity of youth suicide had yet to be examined. The recent release of a comprehensive systems map for adolescent suicide provides an opportunity to contrast the content of surveillance systems and surveys with the mechanisms listed in the map. OBJECTIVE: To inform existing data collection efforts and advance future research on the risk and protective factors relevant to adolescent suicide. METHODS: We examined data from U.S. based surveillance systems and nationally-representative surveys that included (1) observations for an adolescent population and (2) questions or indicators in the data that identified suicidal ideation or suicide attempt. Using thematic analysis, we evaluated the codebooks and data dictionaries for each source to match questions or indicators to suicide-related risk and protective factors identified through a recently published suicide systems map. We used descriptive analysis to summarize where data were available or missing and categorized data gaps by social-ecological level. RESULTS: Approximately 1-of-5 of the suicide-related risk and protective factors identified in the systems map had no supporting data, in any of the considered data sources. All sources cover less than half the factors, except the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (ABCD), which covers nearly 70% of factors. CONCLUSIONS: Examining gaps in suicide research can help focus future data collection efforts in suicide prevention. Our analysis precisely identified where data is missing and also revealed that missing data affects some aspects of suicide research (e.g., distal factors at the community and societal level) more than others (e.g., proximal factors about individual characteristics). In sum, our analysis highlights limitations in current suicide-related data availability and provides new opportunities to identify and expand current data collection efforts. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-023-15320-8. BioMed Central 2023-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10067278/ /pubmed/37005568 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15320-8 Text en © This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Giabbanelli, Philippe J.
Rice, Ketra L.
Nataraj, Nisha
Brown, Margaret M.
Harper, Christopher R.
A systems science approach to identifying data gaps in national data sources on adolescent suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in the United States
title A systems science approach to identifying data gaps in national data sources on adolescent suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in the United States
title_full A systems science approach to identifying data gaps in national data sources on adolescent suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in the United States
title_fullStr A systems science approach to identifying data gaps in national data sources on adolescent suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in the United States
title_full_unstemmed A systems science approach to identifying data gaps in national data sources on adolescent suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in the United States
title_short A systems science approach to identifying data gaps in national data sources on adolescent suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in the United States
title_sort systems science approach to identifying data gaps in national data sources on adolescent suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in the united states
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10067278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37005568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15320-8
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