Comparison of suicide rates among US veteran and nonveteran populations
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This quality improvement study uses data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs to compare the relative risk of suicide among US veteran and nonveteran populations.
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As of 2020, veterans are at up to 6 times greater risk for suicide than nonveterans.
“As of 2020, veterans are at up to 6 times greater risk for suicide than nonveterans (Morral et al., 2023).”
From An Open-Phase Pilot Trial of an Integration of Prolonged Exposure Therapy and the Coping Long-Term With Active Suicide Program (2026) · cites this paper as Morral et al., 2023
The Results report 2017–2020 veteran-to-nonveteran suicide mortality ratios of 1.96 unadjusted, 1.59 with direct standardization, and 1.10 with indirect standardization. The highest age-and-sex-specific ratio in the Results table is 3.18, not sixfold. (LLM, conf=0.89)
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Brown, L. A., Kautz, M., Muzzy, W., Hart, S., Vaughn, J., Murphy, S., Foa, E., Miller, I., Kahn, A., & Acierno, R. (2026) · Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · doi:10.1016/j.cbpra.2025.06.002
- Authors
- Morral, A. R., Schell, T. L., & Smart, R.
- Affiliations
- RAND Corporation (US)
- Corresponding author
- Morral, Andrew R.
- Venue
- JAMA Network Open
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2023-07-18
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- e2324191
- ISSN
- 2574-3805 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC10354669
- OpenAlex
- W4384626712
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 5.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- JAMA Network Open (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Keywords
- suicide rates, veterans, relative risk, military personnel
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Risk Factors, Suicide, Veterans
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