Blog posts with the tag "By the Numbers"

By the Numbers: 21 September 2020

By Shirl Kennedy  on 21.09.2020 8:24 pm

34.4

The number -- out of "1000 psychiatric aeromedical evacuations that occurred between 2001 and 2013" -- that were suicide-related, according to an article published online before print in the journal Military Medicine: Demographic and Occupational Risk Factors Associated With Suicide-Related Aeromedical Evacuation Among Deployed U.S. Military Service Members. 

By the Numbers: 14 September 2020

By Shirl Kennedy  on 14.09.2020 12:45 pm

53%

The percentage of U.S. adults who "reported that their mental health has been negatively impacted due to worry and stress over the coronavirus," according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) -- The Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health and Substance Use. "This is significantly higher than the 32% reported in March, the first time this question was included in KFF polling."

By the Numbers: 24 August 2020

By Shirl Kennedy  on 24.08.2020 2:44 pm

1 in 5

The number of U.S. military Veterans who "have experienced childhood physical or sexual abuse," according to a recent study published online before print in the Journal of Affective Disorders -- Associations of childhood abuse and combat exposure with suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in U.S. military veterans: a nationally representative study. 

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