Strengthening prevention and care as much as possible is the only way to reverse the worrying growth in suicides among children and adolescents. Depression, anxiety, suffering an unfavorable event or prolonged stress, as well as substance abuse, are some of the factors that increase the risk.
In 2021, 22 children between the ages of 10 and 14 died from this cause, a figure that, between 2008 and 2015, never exceeded 10. In January 2020, a study published in JAMA Pediatrics warned that in the US suicides among under-20s had doubled in the last decade.