Resource Tag: SEX DIFFERENCES

This study examined the association between posttraumatic stress disorder & suicide in a population-based Danish sample. All suicides between January 1994-December 2006 were included, & controls were selected from a sample of all Danish residents. Using a nested case-control design, the authors examined 9,612 suicides & 199,306 matched controls. 38 suicide cases & 95 controls […]

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The authors investigated age-, gender-, & method-specific trends in suicide in England & Wales, 1861-2007. Rates in males were consistently higher than females throughout the 19th & 20th centuries, although the male-to-female ratio fluctuated from 4:1 in the 1880s to 1.5:1 in the 1960s. Suicide rates increased in all age groups in the 1930s, coinciding […]

Past research has linked physical activity and sports participation with improved mental and social well-being, including reduced risk of depression and suicidality. In this study we examined relationships among several dimensions of athletic involvement (team sport participation, individual sport participation, athlete identity, and jock identity), gender, and depression and suicidal behavior in a sample of […]

The author discusses trends in suicide rates in England & Wales, & then examines some risk factors which may have affected the rates, including: poverty, unemployment, gender effects, & age. Public health measures that affect suicide rates are also discussed. 5 refs.) Contact us for a copy of this article, or view online at https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/39/6/1475/741917/Commentary-Thomas-amp-Gunnell-s-paper

Abstract OBJECTIVE: To compare the rates of all Axis I and II mental disorders and suicide attempts in sexual orientation minorities with rates in heterosexuals using a nationally representative sample. METHOD: Data used were from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions Wave 2 (n = 34 653, response rate = 70.2%). Cross-tabulations […]

To study the relation between self-reported mental health & risk of suicide, the authors prospectively followed a population-based cohort of middle-aged Norwegians. Females reported higher levels of mental distress than males. In comparison with persons reporting the fewest mental health symptoms, the adjusted hazard ratio for suicide increased from 1.8 in the moderately depressed group […]

Report by SAMHSA reflecing relationship between seasonal changes and visits to the emergency room because of drug-related suicide attempts.

Using Danish population registration data including 15,648 suicides & matched population controls, the authors investigated the association of multiple socioeconomic factors with suicide risk & explored the gender-specific aspects of these associations. Conditional logistic regressional models were used. Socioeconomic status, proxied by low income, unskilled blue-collar work, non-specific wage work, & unemployment increased suicide risk […]

Report by SAMHSA reflecing relationship between seasonal changes and visits to the emergency room because of drug-related suicide attempts.

The authors examined religious affiliation & suicide in Switzerland. The 2000 census records of 1,722,456 Catholics, 1,565,452 Protestants, & 454,397 individuals with no affiliation were linked to mortality records up to December 2005. The association between religious affiliation & suicide, with the Protestant faith serving as the reference category, was examined in Cox regression models. […]

This article describes the completed suicide patterns which occurred in the Timur Laut district of Penang Island, Malaysia. In a prospective cohort study over the three years period (2007-2009) there were 138 cases of suicide deaths. The number of suicide deaths for the year 2007, 2008 and 2009 were 45, 41 and 52 deaths, respectively. […]

This chapter examines representative examples of suicide in the operatic genre. One of the findings is that the majority of suicides are by women, unlike real life where men die by suicide far more frequently than women. Female suicides appear in at least three situations – unrequited love &/or intense rejection, a lover’s seemingly hopeless […]

A meta-analysis was done to examine changes in rates of methods of suicide in Australian states & territories between 1988-2007. There was a decline in rates of shooting, gassing, poisoning, & drowning in males & a decline in shooting, gassing, jumping from a height, & drowning among females, but an increase in hanging by both […]

This article addresses the relationship between suicide mortality & family structure & socioeconomic status for American adults. The authors used Cox proportional hazard models & individual-level prospective data from the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality File (1986-2002) to examine suicide mortality. Larger families & employment are associated with lower risks of suicide for both […]

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This study updated age & sex suicide rates in Italy, evaluated the methods of suicide; considered the effect of underreporting on suicide rates; compared age-adjusted rates of suicide; & examined some possible causes for the misclassification of suicide. Temporal trends, from 1980-2002, were analyzed using joinpoint regression. Suicide rates decreased by 10.5 percent for men […]

A descriptive prospective study of suicide occurring in urban Dar es Salaam was conducted. 53 male & 47 female suicides, ages 15-19 years, were studied. The mean age of victims was 28.2 years. 62% of subjects were single. The main reasons for suicide, established from 61 cases, were severe marital & family conflicts, overwhelming disappointments […]

All 12,497 suicides in Taiwan, 2001-2004, were identified from mortality records retrived from the National Health Insurance Database. 95.1% of females & 84.9% of males had been in contact with health care services in the year before their death. Females received significantly more diagnoses of psychiatric disorders & major depression than did males. Such differences […]

Suicide mortality rates are usually second or third after accidents & homicides, depending on the country, among adolescents. Rates in males are regularly higher than those in females. Owing to the universal absence of a systematic recording of parasuicide cases, morbidity data are much more difficult to get & to analyze. Data based on hospital […]

The risk of offspring suicide was examined in relation to parental history of suicide & other risk factors. 7177 adult offspring born 1959-1961 & their parents from the Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort were studied. 48 cohort members, 77 mothers & 133 fathers had died by suicide during the follow-up. Independent of parental psychiatric illness & social […]

This study investigated secular trends in socioeconomic differentials in Australian suicide, 1979-2003. Socioeconomic status differentials persisted across the study period for males & females after adjusting for the effects of age, migrant status, & urban-rural residence, with the largest differences between low & high socioeconomic status groups evident in males, especially young males, age 20-34 […]

This article reviews studies which examined the effect of antidepressant prescribing on suicide rates in the elderly. Although a decline in the numbers of late-life suicides has occurred, it is suggested this decline may not be sustainable through the treatment of depression alone. The identification of additional biomedical & psychosocial characteristics which prevent or promote […]