Wednesday, June 20, 2018 |1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT
U.S. military veterans have elevated suicide rates when compared to their civilian demographic peers. The burden of suicide is especially high among Veterans in midlife; more than two-thirds of veteran suicides deaths occur among those 50 years and older.
Communication strategies for suicide prevention are increasingly popular as universal interventions to promote help-seeking.
In this article, authors reviewed violence prevention programs that took place in the home or the community, looking for programs that either used a passive, active, or combination teaching strategy intervention, but found that when left unsupervised, children did not use the skills they had learned in the programs, leaving them vulnerable to injury. Discussion? Optimal safe gun storage may be preferred to keep children and adolescents safe from unintentional gun injury.
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