Facts and Myths About Suicide - Part 2: Suicide Risk Factors and Evaluation Questions

In this episode, we focus on risk factors of suicide and discuss strategies for effectively assessing the suicide risk of a patient. 

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This is episode 2 of the series: Facts and Myths About Suicide

Suicide is often one of the most challenging subjects for healthcare providers to broach, yet it is an integral part of patient safety. The number of annual suicides in the United States translates to an average of one person every 11.1 minutes and one attempt every 26.6 seconds. It is the second leading cause of death for people ages 10 to 34 (American Association of Suicidology [AAS], 2021). This podcast series was developed to help healthcare professionals understand the myths surrounding suicide and to provide healthcare providers with strategies to effectively assess if a person is at risk of suicide.    

At Colibri Healthcare, we developed this educational content with a genuine approach to bringing attention to mental illness from a healthcare provider's perspective. This podcast series contains content that may be unsettling to some listeners. Each episode involves an in-depth discussion of suicide, depression, and self-harm. We do our best to discuss sensitive topics such as these with discretion and sincerity. Because of the sensitive topics being discussed, we recommend this podcast series for adults only. 

Content Warnings: Mentions of depression, death, suicide, firearms, overdose, and strangulation.

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