Global trends in suicide epidemiology

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-6

  Sinyor, Mark ^a,b   Tse, Robyn ^b,c   Pirkis, Jane ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Means Restriction; Prevention; Risk Factors; Suicide

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; DRINKING WATER; LITHIUM; PESTICIDE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

AIR POLLUTION; AUTOMUTILATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIREARM; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTER; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PASSIVE SMOKING; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION; RELIGION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY; GLOBAL HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; SUICIDE;

EID: 84995376511     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: 14736578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000296     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. WHO. Preventing suicide: A global imperative. Geneva: World Health Organisation; 2014. 2. Turecki G, Brent DA. Suicide and suicidal behaviour. Lancet 2016; 387:1227-1239.
2. Nordt C, Warnke I, Seifritz E, et al. Modelling suicide and unemployment: A longitudinal analysis covering 63 countries, 2000-2011. Lancet Psychiatry 2015; 2:239-245.
3. Harper S, Charters TJ, Strumpf EC, et al. Economic downturns and suicide mortality in the USA, 1989-2010: observational study. Int J Epidemiol 2015; 44:956-966.
4. DeFina R, Hannon L. The changing relationship between unemployment and suicide. Suicide Life Threat Behav 2015; 45:217-229.
5. Fowler KA, Gladden RM, Vagi KJ, et al. Increase in suicides associated with home eviction and foreclosure during the US housing crisis: findings from 16 National Violent Death Reporting System States, 2005-2010. Am J Public Health 2015; 105:311-316.
6. Branas CC, Kastanaki AE, Michalodimitrakis M, et al. The impact of economic austerity and prosperity events on suicide in Greece: A 30-year interrupted time-series analysis. BMJ Open 2015; 5:e005619.
7. Antonakakis N, Collins A. The impact of fiscal austerity on suicide mortality: evidence across the Eurozone periphery. Soc Sci Med 2015; 145:63-78.
8. Milner AJ, Niven H, LaMontagne AD. Occupational class differences in suicide: evidence of changes over time and during the global financial crisis in Australia. BMC Psychiatry 2015; 15:223.
9. Norström T, Grönqvist H. The great recession, unemployment and suicide. J Epidemiol Community Health 2015; 69:110-116.
10. Breuer C. Unemployment and suicide mortality: evidence from regional panel data in Europe. Health Econ 2015; 24:936-950.
11. Corcoran P, Griffin E, Arensman E, et al. Impact of the economic recession and subsequent austerity on suicide and self-harm in Ireland: An interrupted time series analysis. Int J Epidemiol 2015; 44:969-977.
12. Rachiotis G, Stuckler D, McKee M, et al. What has happened to suicides during the Greek economic crisis? Findings from an ecological study of suicides and their determinants (2003-2012). BMJ Open 2015; 5:e007295.
13. Iemmi V, Bantjes J, Coast E, et al. Suicide and poverty in low-income and middle-income countries: A systematic review. Lancet Psychiatry 2016; 3:774-783.
14. Bakian AV, Huber RS, Coon H, et al. Acute air pollution exposure and risk of suicide completion. Am J Epidemiol 2015; 181:295-303.
15. Ng CF, Stickley A, Konishi S, et al. Ambient air pollution and suicide in Tokyo, 2001-2011. J Affect Disord 2016; 201:194-202.
16. Kim Y, Myung W, Won HH, et al. Association between air pollution and suicide in South Korea: A nationwide study. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0117929.
17. Chen VC, Kuo CJ, Wang TN, et al. Suicide and other-cause mortality after early exposure to smoking and second hand smoking: A 12-year populationbased follow-up study. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0130044.
18. Shiotsuki I, Terao T, Ishii N, et al. Trace lithium is inversely associated with male suicide after adjustment of climatic factors. J Affect Disord 2016; 189:282-286.
19. Pompili M, Vichi M, Dinelli E, et al. Relationships of local lithium concentrations in drinking water to regional suicide rates in Italy. World J Biol Psychiatry 2015; 16:567-574.
20. Cousins S. Nepals silent epidemic of suicide. Lancet 2016; 387:16-17.
21. Ohto H, Maeda M, Yabe H, et al. Suicide rates in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake in Japan. Lancet 2015; 385:1727.
22. Wu A, Wang JY, Jia CX. Religion and completed suicide: A meta-Analysis. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0131715.
23. OReilly D, Rosato M. Religion and the risk of suicide: longitudinal study of over 1 million people. Br J Psychiatry 2015; 206:466-470.
24. Carroll R, Thomas KH, Bramley K, et al. Self-cutting and risk of subsequent suicide. J Affect Disord 2016; 192:8-10.
25. Santana GL, Coelho BM, Borges G, et al. The influence of parental psychopathology on offspring suicidal behavior across the lifespan. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0134970.
26. Lindström M, Rosvall M. Parental separation in childhood, social capital, and suicide thoughts and suicide attempts: A population-based study. Psychiatry Res 2015; 229:206-213.
27. Guldin MB, Li J, Pedersen HS, et al. Incidence of suicide among persons who had a parent who died during their childhood: A population-based cohort study. JAMA Psychiatry 2015; 72:1227-1234.
28. Matsubayashi T, Ueda M. Relative age in school and suicide among young individuals in Japan: A regression discontinuity approach. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0135349.
29. Zalsman G, Hawton K, Wasserman D, et al. Suicide prevention strategies revisited: 10-year systematic review. Lancet Psychiatry 2016; 3:646-659.
30. Pirkis J, Too LS, Spittal MJ, et al. Interventions to reduce suicides at suicide hotspots: A systematic review and meta-Analysis. Lancet Psychiatry 2015; 2:994-1001.
31. Chung YW, Kang SJ, Matsubayashi T, et al. The effectiveness of platform screen doors for the prevention of subway suicides in South Korea. J Affect Disord 2016; 194:80-83.
32. Ueda M, Sawada Y, Matsubayashi T. The effectiveness of installing physical barriers for preventing railway suicides and accidents: evidence from Japan. J Affect Disord 2015; 178:1-4.
33. Anestis MD. Prior suicide attempts are less common in suicide decedents who died by firearms relative to those who died by other means. J Affect Disord 2016; 189:106-109.
34. Chapman S, Alpers P, Jones M. Association between Gun Law Reforms and Intentional Firearm Deaths in Australia, 1979-2113. JAMA 2016; 316:291-299.
35. Kalesan B, MobilyME, Keiser O, et al. Firearm legislation and firearm mortality in the USA: A cross-sectional, state-level study. Lancet 2016; 387:1847-1855.
36. Anestis MD, Anestis JC. Suicide rates and state laws regulating access and exposure to handguns. Am J Public Health 2015; 105:2049-2058.
37. Crifasi CK, Meyers JS, Vernick JS, et al. Effects of changes in permit-Topurchase handgun laws in Connecticut and Missouri on suicide rates. Prev Med 2015; 79:43-49.
38. Myung W, Lee GH, Won HH, et al. Paraquat prohibition and change in the suicide rate and methods in South Korea. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0128980.
39. Chen YY, Chen F, Chang SS, et al. Assessing the efficacy of restricting access to barbecue charcoal for suicide prevention in Taiwan: A communitybased intervention trial. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0133809.
40. Kutcher S, Gardner DM. Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and youth suicide: making sense from a confusing story. Curr Opin Psychiatry 2008; 21:65-69.
41. Otuyelu E, Foldvari A, Szabo E, et al. Antidepressant drugs and teenage suicide in Hungary: Time trend and seasonality analysis. Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract 2015; 19:221-225.
42. Kapur N, Ibrahim S, While D, et al. Mental health service changes, organisational factors, and patient suicide in England in 1997-2012: A before-Andafter study. Lancet Psychiatry 2016; 3:526-534.
43. Wasserman D, Hoven CW, Wasserman C, et al. School-based suicide prevention programmes: The SEYLE cluster-randomised, controlled trial. Lancet 2015; 385:1536-1544.
44. Krysinska K, Batterham PJ, Tye M, et al. Best strategies for reducing the suicide rate in Australia. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2016; 50:115-118.
45. Chang SS, Cheng Q, Lee ES, et al. Suicide by gassing in Hong Kong 2005-2013: emerging trends and characteristics of suicide by helium inhalation. J Affect Disord 2016; 192:162-166.
46. Chen YY, Tsai CW, Biddle L, et al. Newspaper reporting and the emergence of charcoal burning suicide in Taiwan: A mixed methods approach. J Affect Disord 2016; 193:355-361.
47. Chen YY, Yip PS, Lee CK, et al. The diffusion of a new method of suicide: charcoal-burning suicide in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2015; 50:227-236.
48. Gunnell D, Coope C, Fearn V, et al. Suicide by gases in England and Wales 2001-2011: evidence of the emergence of new methods of suicide. J Affect Disord 2015; 170:190-195.
49. Chang SS, Kwok SS, Cheng Q, et al. The association of trends in charcoalburning suicide with Google search and newspaper reporting in Taiwan: A time series analysis. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2015; 50:1451-1461.