{"id":17524,"date":"2018-07-24T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T09:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=17524"},"modified":"2018-07-24T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T09:08:58","slug":"the-importance-of-screening-for-suicide-risk-in-chronic-invisible-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/the-importance-of-screening-for-suicide-risk-in-chronic-invisible-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of screening for suicide risk in chronic invisible illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/escires.com\/articles\/Health-1-141.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Importance of Screening for Suicide Risk in Chronic Invisible\u00a0<\/a>Illness, by Cathy L Pedersen <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span> <em>Journal of Health Science &amp;\u00a0Education\u00a0Vol 2(4): 1-5 2018<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many people suffering from chronic invisible illnesses like chronic fatigue syndrome\/ myalgic encephalomyeletis (CFS\/ME), fibromyalgia, Lyme disease, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) report increased suicidal ideation and past suicide attempts compared with the general population.<\/p>\n<p>A number of factors contribute to suicide risk in chronic illness. Physical factors, like sleep disturbance and pain, as well as psychosocial issues like perceived burdensomeness (feeling like a burden to others), thwarted belongingness (lack of connection to a social group), loneliness, and depression may contribute to an increased suicide risk.<\/p>\n<p>Healthcare practitioners are encouraged to actively screen for suicide risk in their chronically ill patients, and have a protocol in place to refer their patients to proper community resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Importance of Screening for Suicide Risk in Chronic Invisible\u00a0Illness, by Cathy L Pedersen in Journal of Health Science &amp;\u00a0Education\u00a0Vol 2(4): 1-5 2018 Abstract:\u00a0 Many people suffering from chronic invisible illnesses like chronic fatigue syndrome\/ myalgic encephalomyeletis (CFS\/ME), fibromyalgia, Lyme &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/the-importance-of-screening-for-suicide-risk-in-chronic-invisible-illness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4540,689],"class_list":["post-17524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cathy-l-pedersen","tag-suicide"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-4yE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17534,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524\/revisions\/17534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}