Study: Vets show decrease in suicidal thoughts, behaviors during pandemic

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Some evidence suggests the COVID-19 pandemic led to increases in loneliness, isolation, substance use, and financial insecurity, all issues that may increase suicide risk.
U.S. military veterans are particularly at risk of death by suicide. Prior to 2019, veterans accounted for 12 percent of all suicide deaths despite comprising about six percent of the total population.
With those factors in mind, researchers from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD and Mental Illness Research Education and Yale School of Medicine conducted a study using data from a national sample of more than 2,000 veterans (“National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study) to understand how ...