The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention, and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a joint statement urging the USPSTF to reconsider the guidance, emphasizing that their organizations all support universal screening for suicide risk in youth ages 12 and older. The final statements affirm the draft guidelines proposed back in April, which were subsequently met with backlash from several national organizations for failing to recommend suicide risk screening. The USPSTF fell short of recommending suicide risk screening for this older age group, deeming the current evidence insufficient to do so, despite acknowledging that suicide is the second-leading cause of death among youth ages 10 to 19.īoth final recommendation statements were simultaneously published in JAMA.
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