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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A new study from Ohio State University could dramatically shift how suicide is detected and prevented across the country.
"In the state of Ohio, we lose five people every day to suicide," Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation CEO Tony Coder said. "We lose a child every 34 hours. The highest rates of suicide are actually individuals over the age of 65. So those folks are going to the doctor more regularly."
Ohio ‘natural family’ bill would promote traditional values, supporters sayIn an effort to enhance suicide risk and prediction nationwide, researchers at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine are launching the ARTEMIS (Analyses to Reveal Trajectories and Early Markers of Imminent Shifts in Suicidal States) study funded by a $19.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health.
"We have this kind of challenge in clinical care about how to identify which patients need treatment and when," researcher and professor in the Ohio State Department of Psychiatry Dr. Melanie Bozzay said. "And we really think that this project is going to be so important in helping us to be able to answer that question in a way that allows providers to make decisions over very quick time periods."
Research shows that nearly half of individuals who die by suicide had visited a health care provider in the weeks prior to their death. Yet, existing suicide screening approaches in healthcare settings fail to identify most patients who go on to engage in suicidal behavior or die by suicide.
"What we're actually trying to do is create a monitoring tool kind of like you might see when someone is monitoring their insulin for diabetes or monitoring their blood pressure for a heart condition, to basically be able to say, ‘How are you kind of doing throughout the day,’" Bozzay said.
Ohio State’s new intellectual diversity center opens for studentsThe study will use cognitive tasks to understand how participants think and approach problems. It will measure their activity through their smartphone sensors and will ask key questions about sleep patterns and mental health symptoms.
"That gives us a sense of how people are coping with stressors that are coming up," Bozzay said. "What's kind of working? What's not? And what might be some indicators that somebody is really having a really difficult time."
The idea is simple: to help providers know who needs help and when.
"We need folks to have the best tools to be able to meet those mental health needs and not just the physical health needs that people go to their doctors for," Coder said.
The study will begin recruiting about 13,500 participants nationwide in January, including about 4,000 people from Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana who have recently visited a healthcare provider. Individuals between the ages of 18 and 55 will be recruited, representing varying levels of risk for suicide.
"Having the ability to have better outcomes, better ability to help folks coming into the primary care physician's office, really could be literally lifesaving," Coder said.
For more on the study, click here.
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