Rural youth suicide

National rates of youth suicide are disproportionately high in rural areas, according to a study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Pediatrics.

Researchers compared the death records of 66,595 people ages 10 to 24 who died by suicide between 1996 and 2010, and found the rate to be nearly twice as high among those living in rural areas as those in urban areas, according to HealthyCal.org. Over that time period, 19.93 young men and 4.4 young women died by suicide per 100,000 people in rural areas, compared with 10.31 males and 2.39 females per 100,000 people in cities.