Health

Attempted suicide rates much higher in adults with learning disabilities

July 5, 2017

Individuals with learning disabilities were significantly more likely to attempt suicide than those without, according to recent findings.
“Learning disabilities such as dyslexia cast a very long shadow. Adults with learning disabilities still had 46% higher odds of having attempted suicide than their peers without learning problems, even when we took into account a wide range of other risk factors including lifetime history of depression and substance abuse, ADHD, early adversities, age, race, sex, income and education,” Esme Fuller-Thomson, PhD, of University of Toronto, said in a press release.


Fuller-Thomson E, et al. J Learn Disabil. 2017;doi:10.1177/0022219417714776.