Health Promotion & Role Development in Adv. Nursing Practice
Topic 1: Healthy People 20230
Describe your selected health problem. Why is the selected topic important?
Teen suicide is defined as an action in which a teen intentionally kills themselves. According to the Healthy People 2030 report, teen suicide has become a significant health indicator. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among young people, second only to motorcycle accidents. The increased rate of teen suicide necessitated the selection of this topic, which necessitates immediate interventions that could help reduce the rate of suicide among adolescents. According to World Health Organization statistics on teen suicide, over 500 adolescents commit suicide in the United States each year (Stewart & Zullo, 2020). According to these statistics, at least 12 young people commit suicide each year for every 100,000 youths. The rising rate of adolescent suicide is causing concern among parents and the general public. As a result, there is a critical need to understand the risk factors for teen suicide and identify appropriate interventions that could be used to reduce suicide deaths.
Will this issue cause any secondary conditions or complications?
It should be noted that not all adolescent suicide attempts are successful. Suicide attempts may fail in a few isolated cases, leading to complications or the development of secondary conditions such as disabilities. Parents, schools, and other relevant organizations should work to identify major contributing and motivating factors for suicide attempts, such as exposure to violent parents, substance and drug abuse, apathy, and gender prejudice (Rice, 2021).
What criteria are used to assess the likelihood of developing these conditions or complications?
Adequate information about significant causes and risk factors for teen suicide can be gathered through data collection from focus groups, online research, and a review of existing literature from police and other law enforcement and criminal justice agencies (MALOKU & MALOKU, 2020).
Topic 2:
Describe your findings and discuss the strengths or benefits of this source. Would you modify something about it, mainly the information concerning your selected health problem?
: Describe your findings and discuss the sources’ strengths and benefits. Would you change anything about it, primarily the information about your chosen health problem?
When you search for keywords like teen suicide, the site returns 128 results that indicate the status of the search results. It also showed the type, year, topic name, age group, and category of significant risk factors for teen suicide. The advantage of this source is that it produces evidence-based results on teen suicides. Second, the site Helps the researcher in locating the most recent data source with regard to the chosen topic. It automatically organizes evidence-based articles by publication year. This allows researchers to focus on the most recent articles on important issues concerning adolescent suicides. Second, the site is more dependable and effective when it comes to researching various topics of great concern in the healthcare sector.
It is also worth noting that the source provides adequate and reliable data organized according to the researched topic. For example, when I searched for teen suicide, the site not only returned topic-specific results, but also results under various subheadings such as depression and suicide risk factors in teens. This Helped me in identifying depression as a risk factor for adolescent depression. Furthermore, the site provides more insight into the causes of teen suicide, citing various risk factors such as mental and cognitive challenges, as well as substance abuse. This made it simple for me to collect enough information on the causes of adolescent suicide. In my opinion, I would not change anything because the site is superbly designed for ease of use and the generation of results in a matter of seconds after a single click.
References
N. Kaslow (2022, February 1). What are the risk factors for teen suicide? The Child Mind Institute https://childmind.org/article/teen-suicides-risk-factors/
A. MALOKU and E. MALOKU (2020). Suicides from a sociological standpoint / Suicides from a sociological standpoint Ekonomi, şletme, ve Politika Dergisi Uluslararas https://doi.org/10.29216/ueip.784154
Rice, A. (2021, January 23). Familydoctor.org, teen suicide. https://familydoctor.org/teen-suicide/
Stewart, S. M., and L. Zullo (2020). Suicide among adolescents. 1-13 in The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119171492.wecad501
The Preventive Services Taskforce of the United States (2020). Search results for Taskforce on Preventive Services in the United States. https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/search results?searchterm=causes%20of%20teen%20suicde%20
