{"id":65278,"date":"2023-12-06T12:30:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=65278"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:14:29","slug":"the-19th-prof-hahm-examines-increase-women-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/the-19th-prof-hahm-examines-increase-women-suicides\/","title":{"rendered":"The 19th: Professor Hahm Examines Increase in Women Suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an interview with The 19th, Professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm from BU School of Social Work discussed reasons behind the 4 percent increase in suicides for women in 2022. According to data from the CDC, 2022 also marked the highest rate of deaths by suicide in US history, with women between 25 and 34 experiencing the most significant increase in suicide rates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Excerpt from \u201c<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2023\/12\/cdc-suicide-rates-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b><i>Suicide rates for women increased 4 percent in 2022, according to latest CDC data<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>\u201d by Mariel Padilla, originally posted in The 19th:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHyeouk Chris Hahm, an associate dean for research at Boston University School of Social Work, said that suicide is associated with a complex combination of individual, interpersonal, and societal factors, making it difficult to pinpoint exact causes. Still, Hahm also mentioned the losses of the pandemic \u2014 in addition to a loneliness epidemic, substance use disorder, and financial strains in young adulthood \u2014 as potential contributors to deteriorating mental wellness and subsequent increased suicide rates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Especially among young adults in the U.S., these stresses are often linked to high college costs, student loans and escalating living expenses,\u2019 Hahm said. \u2018In addition, the current housing crisis, characterized by a lack of affordable options and high mortgage rates, further crushes many young adults\u2019 dreams of homeownership.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2023\/12\/cdc-suicide-rates-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the full article here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/hyeouk-chris-hahm-lcsw\/\"><b>Learn More About Professor Hahm\u2019s Research<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with The 19th, Professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm from BU School of Social Work discussed reasons behind the 4 percent increase in suicides for women in 2022. According to data from the CDC, 2022 also marked the highest rate of deaths by suicide in US history, with women between 25 and 34 experiencing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19132,"featured_media":52344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7440,7517,7511,4057],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76098,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65278\/revisions\/76098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}