@article {10198,
	title = {Beyond Depression: Estimating 12-Months Prevalence of Passive Suicidal Ideation in Mid- and Late-Life in the Health and Retirement Study},
	journal = {The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry},
	year = {2019},
	month = {07/2019},
	pages = {1-12},
	abstract = {Objectives:To provide valid estimates of the 12-month prevalence of passive suicidal ideation among older adults, without conditioning on depression status,using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).Methods:Data come from the 2012 HRS (n = 17,434) and 2004/5 Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area(ECA) Study (n = 755). In the HRS, passive suicidal ideation (i.e., thought a lot about death{\textemdash}your own, someone else{\textquoteright}s, or death in general) is only assessed on respondents who reported dysphoria/anhedonia; in the ECA, ideation is assessed on all respondents, regardless of depression. We compare two approaches to estimating the 12-month prevalence of passive suicidal ideation in the HRS without conditioning on depression symptoms: 1) a probit selection model within the HRS,and 2) a prediction model developed using appended ECA data applied to the HRS. Results: Using observed data alone on those who screened positive for depression, 6\% of older adults reported passive suicidal ideation in the past year.Depending on the approach used, between 5.4\% and 9.2\% of HRS respondents who screened negative for depression would have reported passive suicidal idea-tion had they been assessed. Correcting for this selection bias, between 10.9\% and 13.4\% of U.S. adults over age 50 experienced passive suicidal ideation in 2012.Conclusions:Population surveillance of suicidal ideation among older adults is biased by survey approaches that only assess ideation in the context of depression},
	keywords = {Aging, depression, population-based, suicide, surveillance},
	doi = { https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2019.06.015},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1064748119304221},
	author = {Dong, Liming and Viktoryia A Kalesnikava and Gonzalez, Richard and Briana Mezuk}
}
