Suicide thoughts among U.S. adults by major depressive episode 2022

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Preeti Vankar,
Feb 12, 2024
In 2022, around 33.2 percent of adults in the United States with a major depressive episode had serious thoughts of suicide within the preceding year. This statistic shows suicidal thoughts, plans, and attempts among U.S. adults as of 2022, broken down by major depressive episode.

Suicide thoughts, plans and attempts among U.S. adults as of 2022, by major depressive episode*

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Release date

November 2023

Region

United States

Survey time period

2022

Number of respondents

base: around 71,000

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Questionnaire

Supplementary notes

* Suicide thoughts, plans and attempt in the past year. serious thoughts of suicide in the past year. Major Depressive Episode (MDE) is defined as in the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), which specifies a period of at least 2 weeks when a person experienced a depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities and had a majority of specified depression symptoms. Respondents with unknown past year MDE data were excluded.

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