{"id":71299,"date":"2018-05-19T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71299"},"modified":"2018-05-19T09:53:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T13:53:05","slug":"npr-hospitals-see-growing-numbers-of-kids-and-teens-at-risk-for-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71299","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Hospitals See Growing Numbers Of Kids And Teens At Risk For Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of kids who struggle with thoughts of suicide or who attempt to kill themselves is rising. New research, published Wednesday in\u00a0<em>Pediatrics,<\/em>\u00a0finds children ages 5 to 17 visited children&#8217;s hospitals for suicidal thoughts or attempts about twice as often in 2015 as in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1542\/peds.2017-2426\">The study<\/a>\u00a0found kids of all ages are affected though increases were greatest for older adolescents.<\/p>\n<p>Lead author Gregory Plemmons, a pediatrician and researcher at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., says the study results confirmed what he had been seeing at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He says he hopes clinicians and families take note. &#8220;The No. 1 thing to take home is that it&#8217;s important to talk about this and important to ask about it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/05\/16\/611407972\/hospitals-see-growing-numbers-of-kids-and-teens-at-risk-for-suicide\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of kids who struggle with thoughts of suicide or who attempt to kill themselves is rising. New research, published Wednesday in\u00a0Pediatrics,\u00a0finds children ages 5 to 17 visited children&#8217;s hospitals for suicidal thoughts or attempts about twice as often<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71299\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,129,603,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-psychology","category-suicide","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71301,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71299\/revisions\/71301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}