Suicide mortality and marital status for specific ages, genders, and education levels in South Korea: Using a virtually individualized dataset from national aggregate data
Suicide mortality and marital status for specific ages, genders, and education levels in South Korea: Using a virtually individualized dataset from national aggregate data
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jad.2018.05.003
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发表时间：
2018-09-01
影响因子：
6.6
通讯作者：
Kim, Haeryun
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作者：
Park, Soo Kyung;Lee, Chung Kwon;Kim, Haeryun
背景：先前在东方和西方国家的研究都表明婚姻状况和自杀死亡率之间存在关系。然而，到目前为止，还没有韩国的研究根据特定性别、年龄和教育水平的婚姻状况计算全国自杀率。本研究调查婚姻状况与自杀之间的关系是否因年龄、性别和教育程度而异，并在控制这些社会人口学变量后分析婚姻状况对自杀风险的影响。方法：利用韩国2015年的全国死亡率数据和2010年的汇总人口普查数据，我们创建了一个几乎个人化的数据集，包括个人社会人口学特征和整个人口的自杀率。结果：结果显示，以下群体面临的相对自杀风险最高：1)所有年龄段的离婚男性和75岁以上的男性，特别是75岁以上的离婚男性；2)年龄55-的未婚男性和文化程度较低的未婚女性。限制：我们没有考虑无法获得的重要变量，如心理健康、药物滥用、工作不安全感、社会融合、感知孤独感和家庭收入。结论：本研究扩展了以前关于自杀的理论和方法工作，有助于降低韩国自杀死亡率。
Background: Previous studies in Eastern as well as Western countries have shown a relationship between marital status and suicide mortality. However, to date, no Korean study has calculated national suicide rates by marital status for specific genders, ages, and education levels. This study investigated whether the relationship between marital status and suicide differs by age, gender, and educational attainment, and analyzed the effect of marital status on suicide risk after controlling for these socio-demographic variables.Methods: Using national mortality data from 2015, and aggregated census data from 2010 in South Korea, we created a virtually individualized dataset with multiple weighting algorithms, including individual socio-demographic characteristics and suicide rates across the entire population.Results: The findings show that the following groups faced the highest relative suicide risks: 1) divorced men of all ages and men aged more than 75 years, particularly divorced men aged more than 75; and 2) never-married men aged 55-64 years, and never-married women of lower education status.Limitations: We did not account for important variables such as mental health, substance abuse, employment insecurity, social integration, perceived loneness, and family income which we were unable to access.Conclusions: This current research extends prior theoretical and methodological work on suicide, aiding efforts to reduce suicide mortality in South Korea.