According to Kim, these stress exposures include life-changing events, such as the death of a loved one, a breakup with a significant partner, or a change in career path. Women are more likely to attempt suicide, she added.įor undergraduate students in the United States, the rates of suicide ideation and suicide attempts increase with exposure to stress. 1 According to Kim, men are more likely to die by suicide because men tend to use more lethal means.
The data also showed that of people who died by suicide, 69.67% in the United States and 75% in Australia were male. We can decrease the number of people die by suicide,” said panelist Anne Kim, PharmD, MPH, MIT, assistant professor of pharmacotherapy at Washington State University. The United States saw a 31% increase in the suicide rate between 20, and Australia’s suicide rate increased by 9% from 2016 to 2017. Globally, 800,000 people die by suicide annually, and suicide is one of the top 10 causes of death in people aged 15 to 49 years, according to the presenters. In the United States, 22.4% of pharmacists knew a patient who died by suicide, and 21.6% knew a patient who requested a lethal medication dose.1 In both the United States and Australia, the rates of suicide are increasing.
In Australia and Canada, 85% of pharmacists had interacted on the job with someone at risk of suicide, and 16% had had 6 or more such interactions. The session also offered insights into training programs for pharmacy students about mental health first aid.ĪACP meeting presenters from Washington State University (WSU) and the University of Sydney (USYD) shared statistics for pharmacist interactions with patients at risk for suicide. This type of training may be critical for saving lives, and it is becoming an increasingly important part of pharmacy education.ĭata on mental health in the United States and Australia were recently presented at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Meeting’s Virtual Pharmacy Education 2020. Mental health first aid (MHFA) courses are training more pharmacists to recognize patients in crisis.
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