February 25, 2022Suicidal behaviors and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) are more prevalent among first-year college students with ADHD compared to undergraduates without ADHD, according to a new study published in the Journal of Attention Disorders.1The study found that undergraduate students with ADHD had more than double the rate of suicidal ideation (44.8% vs.
21.7%), three times the rate of suicide plans (26.6% vs. 9.8%), and more than double the rate of suicide attempts (13.4% vs.
5.5%) and NSSI (23.4% vs. 9.6%) compared to students without ADHD. 1Researchers evaluated the frequency of suicidal ideation (SI), plans and attempts, and NSSI among 1,829 first-year students (1,317 females and 512 males) from Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) in the Republic of Ireland and four Ulster University (UU) campuses in Northern Ireland.
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