@article{a796f94b8b98471db0fb74257973673a,
title = "Lifetime Suicidal Behaviors and Career Characteristics Among U.S. Army Soldiers: Results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS)",
abstract = "The current report presents data on lifetime prevalence of suicide ideation and nonfatal attempts as reported by the large representative sample of U.S. Army soldiers who participated in the Consolidated All-Army Survey of the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (N = 29,982). We also examine associations of key Army career characteristics with these outcomes. Prevalence estimates for lifetime suicide ideation are 12.7% among men and 20.1% among women, and for lifetime suicide attempts are 2.5% and 5.1%, respectively. Retrospective age-of-onset reports suggest that 53.4%–70% of these outcomes had preenlistment onsets. Results revealed that, for both men and women, being in the Regular Army, compared with being in the National Guard or Army Reserve, and being in an enlisted rank, compared with being an officer, is associated with increased risk of suicidal behaviors and that this elevated risk is present both before and after joining the Army.",
author = "{the STARRS-LS collaborators} and Millner, {Alexander J.} and Ursano, {Robert J.} and Irving Hwang and King, {Andrew J.} and Naifeh, {James A.} and Sampson, {Nancy A.} and Zaslavsky, {Alan M.} and Stein, {Murray B.} and Kessler, {Ronald C.} and Nock, {Matthew K.} and Steven Heeringa and Colpe, {Lisa J.} and Michael Schoenbaum and Steven Cersovsky and Kenneth Cox and Aliaga, {Pablo A.} and Benedek, {David M.} and {Nikki Benevides}, K. and Bliese, {Paul D.} and Susan Borja and Bromet, {Evelyn J.} and Brown, {Gregory G.} and Laura Campbell-Sills and Dempsey, {Catherine L.} and Fullerton, {Carol S.} and Nancy Gebler and Gifford, {Robert K.} and Gilman, {Stephen E.} and Holloway, {Marjan G.} and Hurwitz, {Paul E.} and Sonia Jain and Kao, {Tzu Cheg} and Koenen, {Karestan C.} and Lisa Lewandowski-Romps and Mash, {Holly Herberman} and McCarroll, {James E.} and Ng, {Tsz Hin Hinz} and Rema Raman and Ramsawh, {Holly J.} and Rosellini, {Anthony Joseph} and Patcho Santiago and Michaelle Scanlon and Smoller, {Jordan W.} and Amy Street and Thomas, {Michael L.} and Leming Wang and Wassel, {Christina L.} and Simon Wessely and Wryter, {Christina L.} and Hongyan Wu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 The American Association of Suicidology",
year = "2018",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1111/sltb.12363",
language = "English",
volume = "48",
pages = "230--250",
journal = "Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior",
issn = "0363-0234",
number = "2",
}