Resource Tag: URBAN ECOLOGY (SOCIOLOGY)

In two surveys of nine American cities, suicides made up about one-fourth & homicides about one-tenth of the cases involving drugs. Individuals who definitely died by suicide more often were female & somewhat older than the sample as a whole. Whites were overrepresented. A very high percentage of suicide victims were reported as emotionally depressed […]

320 consecutive cases of attempted suicide who were admitted to an urban emergency department in Japan were interviewed, with a focus on psychosocial background & DSM-IV diagnosis. Subjects were divided into 2 groups according to the lethality of method. 95% of patients received a psychiatric diagnosis. The most frequent diagnosis was mood disorder. The mean […]

Sex-specific crude & adjusted odds ratios for suicide by age, ethnicity, & city were assessed using logistic regression. For males, compared with the reference groups, the odds of suicide were significantly higher during middle adulthood, among Asians and particularly among Whites, & among residents of all but one city. Patterns for women differed in magnitude […]

This study examined the structural correlates of Hispanic suicide at the metropolitan level using Mortality Multiple Cause-of-Death Records & 2000 census data. Competing hypotheses regarding the effects of immigration, assimilation, affluence, economic disadvantage, & ethnic inequality were tested. Findings point to multiple forces & complex relationships among social structure, culture, & Hispanic suicide. Findings also […]

This study evaluated the association between suicide ideation & potentially related factors in an elderly urban Japanese population. This was a community-based, cross-sectional study. Of the 1145 eligible participants, 52 reported suicide ideation. Of 143 subjects with depressive symptoms, 22 reported suicide ideation over a 2-week period. After controlling for depressive symptoms, lack of social […]

This study sought to establish the prevalence & associated psychosocial correlates of suicide ideation & attempts in Nigerian youth. Stratified sampling was used to identify youth aged 10-17 years who completed the Nigerian version of the Global School Health Questionnaire & the Diagnostic Predictive Scale. A total of 1429 youths participated. Over 20% reported suicide […]

The typical circumstances of suicide in post-apartheid urban South Africa are described. Data comprise suicide cases from all urban municipalities where an injury surveillance system has full coverage. Typical patterns were identified by means of a classification technique applied to 8 variables descriptive of the events, their victims, & the suicide level of the cities. […]

To determine suicide rates, the authors carried out an analysis of suicide reports from six cities in Pakistan. Rates vary from 0.43/100,000 in Peshawar to 2.86/100,000 in Rawalpindi. Rates for men are consistently higher than women; highest rates for men were 7.06/100,000 between the ages 20-40 years in Larkana, Sindh province. Given the legal, socio-cultural, […]

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The relationship between city population size and suicide rates rarely has been examined directly, though scholars often assume such a relationship exists based on studies of the association between suicide rates and urbanization (percent of the population living in cities) in various social contexts. In an effort to determine the basic association between suicide rates […]

Patterns of young adult suicide in England & Wales between 1981-1998 in relation to rurality were examined. Two complementary population-based indices of rurality – population density & population potential – were used. Over the years studied, the most unfavourable trends in suicide in 15-44-year-olds generally occurred in areas remote from the main centres of population; […]

Coroner data was analyzed for the 468 suicides that occurred in Indianapolis, Indiana during 1998-2001. The age-adjusted suicide rate was 14.08 per 100,000. Almost one-half of the victims had a mental illness & 26% had a history of alcohol/substance abuse. The leading risk factors for suicide were age, impaired health, psychosocial stressors, & access to […]

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Little is known about rates and correlates of suicidal ideation among nonclinical samples of preadolescents from low-income urban backgrounds. Using the Children’s Depression Inventory, we measured suicidal ideation in 131 preadolescent urban children (49% female, 90% African American/Caribbean) participating in an ongoing prospective longitudinal study of prenatal cocaine exposure and children’s outcome. Suicidal ideation was […]

Although it is not a legal requirement in South Africa, medical practitioners determine the manner of injury death for a surveillance system that is currently the only source of epidemiological data on suicide. This study assessed the accuracy of suicide data as recorded in the system using the docket produced from standard medico-legal investigation procedures […]

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The goals of this study were to compare aggression scores in suicide attempters & healthy volunteers in Madrid & New York City, & to determine whether higher aggression scores are associated with greater medical lethality of suicide attempts. Depressed suicide attempters from New York City made attempts of greater lethality & reported more lifetime aggressive […]