Mental health conditions and suicide with relationship problems U.S. 2015

This statistic depicts the percentage of U.S. suicides with known or unknown mental health conditions as of 2015, by previously known relationship problems or losses. According to the data, around 27.2 percent of all suicide victims that year experienced an intimate partner problem. Furthermore, 30.2 percent of suicides among those with no known mental health condition experienced such relationship problems.

Distribution of U.S. suicides that had a known mental health condition as of 2015, by relationship problems or loss

Characteristic	Total	Known mental health condition	No known mental health condition
Any relationship problem/loss	42.4%	39.6%	45.1%
Intimate partner problem	27.2%	24.1%	30.2%
Perpetrator of interpersonal violence in past month	2.2%	1.4%	3%
Victim of interpersonal violence in past month	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%
Family relationhip problem	8.9%	9.3%	8.5%
Other relationship problem (nonintimate)	2.1%	2.1%	2.1%
Argument or conflict (not specified)	15.5%	13.6%	17.5%
Death of a loved one (any)	8%	8.8%	7.2%
Nonsuicide death	6.3%	6.9%	5.7%
Suicide of family or friend	2%	2.3%	1.7%

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Release date

June 2018

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2015

Age group

10 years and older

Special properties

27 States

Supplementary notes

Includes data from 27 states: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin

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