Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2019.397

COMPARISON OF THE RISK FACTORS OF KOREAN ADOLESCENT SUICIDE RESIDING IN HIGH SUICIDAL REGIONS VERSUS THOSE IN LOW SUICIDAL REGIONS

Gyung-Mee Kim ; Adjunct Research Fellow, National Evidence based healthcare Collaborating Agency, Seoul, Korea; Departments of Psychiatry, HaeUnDae Paik Hospital, Inje University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea
Ji-Min Kim ; National Evidence based healthcare Collaborating Agency, Seoul, Korea
Min Kyung Hyun ; Adjunct Research Fellow, National Evidence based healthcare Collaborating Agency, Seoul, Korea; Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Dongguk University, Gyeongju, Korea
Seong Mi Choi ; Adjunct Research Fellow, National Evidence based healthcare Collaborating Agency, Seoul, Korea; National Evidence based healthcare Collaborating Agency, Seoul, Korea
Jong-Min Woo ; Adjunct Research Fellow, National Evidence based healthcare Collaborating Agency, Seoul, Korea; Korea Employee Assistance Professionals Association, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

Background: The suicide rate of the youth in South Korea has been increasing, and suicide of the youth still has been the most common cause of death since 2007. We aimed to determine the trends and the regional risk factors of youth suicide in South Korea from 2001 to 2010.
Subjects and Methods: We used the data from the National Statistical Office to calculate the standardized suicide rates and various regional data including population census, employment, and labor. To calculate the effect of individual risk factors, we used the data from the fourth Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey (KYRBWS-VI). Conditional autoregressive model for regional standardized mortality ratio (SMR) using inter-regional spatial information was fitted.
Results: Suicide rates of adolescents aged 12 to 18 was from 3.5 per 100,000 people in 2001 and 5.3 per 100,000 in 2010. There were no significant gender difference in suicide rates, however, the number of suicides among adolescents aged 15-18 accounted for four times than those of adolescents ages 12-14. High proportion of late adolescents, higher number of recipients of national basic livelihood, and higher number of adolescents who treated with depression were related to elevated suicide rate of adolescent. Total sleep time of adolescents and regional unemployment rate were negatively associated with the suicide risk of respective regions.
Conclusions: Age distribution, economic status, total sleep time, and the number of adolescent patients with depression were different between those in low and in high adolescent suicidal regions in Korea. Our findings suggest that preferential appliance of adolescent suicide prevention program for regions by considering those factors may be important steps to reduce adolescent suicide in Korea.

Keywords

suicide; adolescent; risk factor; depression; sleep

Hrčak ID:

235320

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/235320

Publication date:

4.11.2019.

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