Predicting suicide in older adults - a community-based cohort study in Taipei City, Taiwan
Predicting suicide in older adults - a community-based cohort study in Taipei City, Taiwan
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jad.2014.09.037
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发表时间:
2015-02-01
影响因子:
6.6
通讯作者:
Chen, Ying-Yeh
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作者:
Hung, Galen Chin-Lun;Kwok, Chi-Leung;Chen, Ying-Yeh
Background: Older adults worldwide are at a greater risk of suicide than other age groups. There is a scarcity of prospective studies exploring risk factors for suicide in older people and their discriminative ability to identify future suicide.Methods: We examined a prospective cohort of senior Taipei City residents between 2005 and 2009 (N=101,764). Cox proportional hazards regression analysis was used to determine significant risk factors and to construct a predictive score. The accuracy of the derived score in the prediction was tested by Receiver Operating Characteristic analysis.Results: Male sex (Hazard Ratio [HR]=3.41, p