Trends in suicide rates by race and ethnicity among members of the United States Army

Lisa A. Brenner; Jeri E. Forster; Colin G. Walsh; Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder; Mary Jo Larson; Trisha A. Hostetter; Claire A. Hoffmire; Jaimie L. Gradus; Rachel Sayko Adams

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0280217

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Trends in suicide rates by race and ethnicity among members of the United States Army

Lisa A. Brenner ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa A. Brenner, Jeri E. Forster, Colin G. Walsh, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Mary Jo Larson, Trisha A. Hostetter, Claire A. Hoffmire, Jaimie L. Gradus, Rachel Sayko Adams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: lisa.2.brenner@cuanschutz.edu

Affiliations VHA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2629-214X

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Jeri E. Forster ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa A. Brenner, Jeri E. Forster, Colin G. Walsh, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Mary Jo Larson, Trisha A. Hostetter, Claire A. Hoffmire, Jaimie L. Gradus, Rachel Sayko Adams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VHA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
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Colin G. Walsh ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa A. Brenner, Jeri E. Forster, Colin G. Walsh, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Mary Jo Larson, Trisha A. Hostetter, Claire A. Hoffmire, Jaimie L. Gradus, Rachel Sayko Adams

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America
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Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa A. Brenner, Jeri E. Forster, Colin G. Walsh, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Mary Jo Larson, Trisha A. Hostetter, Claire A. Hoffmire, Jaimie L. Gradus, Rachel Sayko Adams

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VHA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
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Mary Jo Larson ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa A. Brenner, Jeri E. Forster, Colin G. Walsh, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Mary Jo Larson, Trisha A. Hostetter, Claire A. Hoffmire, Jaimie L. Gradus, Rachel Sayko Adams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Behavioral Health, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Trisha A. Hostetter ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa A. Brenner, Jeri E. Forster, Colin G. Walsh, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Mary Jo Larson, Trisha A. Hostetter, Claire A. Hoffmire, Jaimie L. Gradus, Rachel Sayko Adams

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation VHA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
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Claire A. Hoffmire ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa A. Brenner, Jeri E. Forster, Colin G. Walsh, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Mary Jo Larson, Trisha A. Hostetter, Claire A. Hoffmire, Jaimie L. Gradus, Rachel Sayko Adams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VHA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
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Jaimie L. Gradus ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa A. Brenner, Jeri E. Forster, Colin G. Walsh, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Mary Jo Larson, Trisha A. Hostetter, Claire A. Hoffmire, Jaimie L. Gradus, Rachel Sayko Adams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Rachel Sayko Adams

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa A. Brenner, Jeri E. Forster, Colin G. Walsh, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Mary Jo Larson, Trisha A. Hostetter, Claire A. Hoffmire, Jaimie L. Gradus, Rachel Sayko Adams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VHA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Institute for Behavioral Health, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4450-0712

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Trends in suicide rates by race and ethnicity among members of the United States Army

Lisa A. Brenner,
Jeri E. Forster,
Colin G. Walsh,
Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder,
Mary Jo Larson,
Trisha A. Hostetter,
Claire A. Hoffmire,
Jaimie L. Gradus,
Rachel Sayko Adams

Published: January 17, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280217

About the Authors

Lisa A. Brenner

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa A. Brenner, Jeri E. Forster, Colin G. Walsh, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Mary Jo Larson, Trisha A. Hostetter, Claire A. Hoffmire, Jaimie L. Gradus, Rachel Sayko Adams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: lisa.2.brenner@cuanschutz.edu

Affiliations VHA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2629-214X

Jeri E. Forster

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Colin G. Walsh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Mary Jo Larson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Behavioral Health, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Trisha A. Hostetter

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation VHA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Claire A. Hoffmire

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Jaimie L. Gradus

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rachel Sayko Adams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations VHA Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Institute for Behavioral Health, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4450-0712

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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