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New York: Recent studies reveal the root causes begin from family conflict and parental monitoring are significant to predict in kids from 9 years.  Major percent of the children surveyed in the study had caregivers who did not report or not aware about the suicidal thoughts of the children.Deanna Barch, Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, US remarks "Our data suggests that's absolutely not true. Kids are having these thoughts. They're not at the same rates as adults, but they are nontrivial” and added Historically, the belief has been that people don't need to ask kids about suicidal thoughts before adolescence.

Evaluating and dividing thoughts and actions into categories the study reports  2.4 to 6.2 per cent of the children reportes they had thoughts about suicide, from thinking as they were dead to devising — but not performing the plan. When it came to actions, they saw 0.9 per cent of these 9- and -10-year-olds said they had tried to commit suicide; 9.1 per cent reported non-suicidal self-injury.

The caretakers did not know about the child's experience, but more than 75 percent of cases children self-reported suicidal thoughts or behaviours, said the study. Parents and people around kinds should be aware about a 9-year-old is thinking about suicide. Barch said, "If you have kids who are distressed in some way, you should be asking about this," she said, adding that caregivers can help identify kids who might be in trouble.

The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, looked at 11,814 children between ages 9 and 10 from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, a longitudinal study in the US on adolescent brain health in which caretakers also participate.

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