Effect of sociodemographic factors, cancer, psychiatric disorder on suicide: Gender and age-specific patterns

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-60

  Park, Young Jae ^a   Moon, Tae Ki ^b   Chae, Mi Yoo ^c   Jung, Hyuk Sang ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Health Insurance Review Agency   (South Korea)

^c Dankook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Case control study; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 41649083787     PISSN: 19758375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3961/jpmph.2008.41.1.51     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Hong JP, Bae MJ, Suh T. Epidemiology of suicide in Korea. Psychiatry Invest 2006; 3(2): 7-14.
2. Durkheim E. Suicide. Illinois: Free Press; 1987. p. 38-50.
3. King EA, Baldwin DS, Sinclair JM, Baker NG, Campbell MJ, Thompson C. The Wessex recent in-patient suicide study, I. Case-control study of 234 recently discharged psychiatric patient suicides. Br J Psychiatry 2001; 178: 531-536.
4. Appleby L, Shaw J, Amos T, McDonnell R, Harris C, McCann K, et al. Suicide within 12 months of contact with mental health service: National clinical survey. BMJ 1999; 318(7193): 1235-1239.
5. Qin P, Agerbo E, Westergard-Nielsen N, Erikkson T, Mortensen PB. Gender difference in risk factors for suicide in Denmark. Br J Psychiatry 2000; 177: 546-550.
6. Strenager E. Somatic disease and suicidal behavior. Psychiatr Danub 2006; 18 (suppl 1): 151
7. Waern M, Rubenowitz E, Runeson B, Skoog I, Wilhelmson K, Allebeck P. Burden of illness and suicide in elderly people: Case-control study. BMJ 2002; 324(7350): 1355-1358.
8. Lepetz C, Reich M. Suicidal crisis in oncology: Assessment and care. Bull Cancer 2006; 93(7): 709-713.
9. Conwell Y, Duberstein PR, Caine ED. Risk factors for suicide in later life. Biol Psychiatry 2002; 52(3): 193-204.
10. Oh JK, Cho YT, Kim CY. Socio-Demographic characteristics of suicides in South Korea. Health Soc Sci 2005; 18: 191-210. (Korean)
11. Hong SC, Kim MD, Lee SY. Suicide risk in relation to social class: A national registerbased study of all suicides in Korea, 1999-2001. Health Soc Sci 2003; 14: 249-271. (Korean)
12. Kim HJ, Song YJ, Yi JJ, Chung WJ, Nam JM. Changes in mortality after the recent economic crisis in South Korea. Ann Epidemiol 2004; 14(6): 442-446.
13. Ross RK, Bernstein L, Trent L, Henderson BE, Paganini-Hill A. A prospective study of risk factors for traumatic death in the retirement community. Prev Med 1990; 19(3): 323-334.
14. Kposowa AJ. Marital status and suicide in National longitudinal mortality study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2000; 54(4): 254-261.
15. Agerbo E, Qin P, Mortensen PB. Psychiatric illness, socioeconomic status, and marital status in people committing suicide: A matched casesibling-control study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2006; 60(9): 776-781.
16. Pirkis J, Blood RW, Beautrais A, Skehans J. Media guidelines on the reporting of suicide. Crisis 2006; 27(2): 82-87.
17. Gould MS. Suicide and the media. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2001; 932: 200-221.
18. Mann JJ. A current perspective of suicide and attempted suicide. Ann Intern Med 2002; 136(4): 302-311
19. Rich CL, Young D, Fowler RC. San Diego suicide study. I. Young vs old subjects. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1986; 43(6): 577-582.
20. Kumar G, Steer R. Psychosocial correlates of suicidal ideation in adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Suicide Life Threat Behav 1995; 25(3): 339-346.
21. Suh TW. Current situation and trends of suicidal deaths, ideas and attempts in Korea. Health Soc Welfare Rev 2001; 21(1): 106-125. (Korean)
22. Kim MD, Hong SC, Lee SY, Kwak YS, Lee CI, Hwang SW, et al. Suicide risk in relation to social class: A national register-based study of adult suicides in Korea, 1999-2001. Int J Social Psychiatry 2006; 52(2): 138-151.
23. Schneider B, Philipp M, Mller MJ. Psychopathological predictors of suicide in patients with major depression during a 5-year followup. Eur Psychiatry 2001; 16(5): 283-288.
24. Yip PS, Liu KY. The ecological fallacy and the gender ratio of suicide in China. Br J Psychiatry 2006; 189: 465-466.
25. Park JS, Lee JY, Kim SD. A study for effects of economic growth rate and unemployment rate to suicide rate in Korea. Korean J Prev Med 2003; 36(1): 85-91. (Korean)
26. Gunnell DJ, Peters TJ, Kammerling RM, Brooks J. Relation between parasuicide, suicide, psychiatric admission and socioeconomic deprivation. BMJ 1995; 311(6999): 226-230.
27. Agerbo E, Mortensen PB, Eriksson T, Qin P, Westergaard-Nielsen N. Risk of suicide in relation to income level in people admitted to hospital with mental illness: Nested casecontrol study. BMJ 2001; 322(7282): 334-335.
28. Qin P, Agerbo E, Mortensen PB. Suicide risk in relation to socioeconomic, demographic, psychiatric, and familial factors: A national register based study of all suicides in Denmark, 1981-1997. Am J Psychiatry 2003; 160(4): 765-772.
29. McKeown RE, Cuffe SP, Schulz RM. US suicide rates by age group, 1970-2002: An examination of recent trends. Am J Public Health 2006; 96(10): 1744-1751.
30. Park JH, No YH, Wi DH. Clinical analysis of attempted suicide in the elderly. J Korean Soc Emerg Med 2001; 12(2): 135-142. (Korean)
31. Brent DA, Perper JA, Allman CJ. Alcohol, firearms, and suicide, among youth. Temporal trend in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, 1960 to 1983. JAMA 1987; 257(24): 3369-3372.
32. Greenberg PE, Kessler RC, Birnbaum HG, Leong SA, Lowe SW, Berglund PA, et al. The economic burden of depression in the United States: How did it change between 1990 and 2000? J Clin Psychiatry 2003; 64(12): 1465-1475.
33. O'Connell H, Chin AV, Cunningham C, Lawlor BA. Recent developments: Suicide in older people. BMJ 2004; 329(7471): 895-899.
34. Kirkcaldy BD, Siefen GR, Urkin J, Merrick J. Risk factors for suicidal behavior in adolescentes. Minerva Pediatr 2006; 58(5): 443-450.