AI-Based Suicide Screening for American Indian Patients

10/01/2025 19 min
AI-Based Suicide Screening for American Indian Patients

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American Indian and Alaska Native communities have higher rates of suicide than any other racial or ethnic group in the US. A recent study published in JAMA Network Open describes an AI-based suicide screening tool investigated in an American Indian community. Author Emily Haroz, PhD, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, joins JAMA and JAMA+ AI Associate Editor Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH. Related Content: How AI Could Help Clinicians Identify American Indian Patients at Risk for Suicide Performance of Machine Learning Suicide Risk Models in an American Indian Population