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Factors that affect substance users’ suicidal behavior: a view from the Addiction Severity Index in Korea
BACKGROUND: In South Korea, it has not been easy to negotiate studies that target drug users who are being punished by law, and accordingly, no study on suicidal ideation among substance users has been accomplished yet. In this study, the factors that affect substance users’ suicidal ideation were c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4175090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24220264 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-12-35 |
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author | Kwon, Min Yang, Soo Park, Kyongran Kim, Dai-Jin |
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description | BACKGROUND: In South Korea, it has not been easy to negotiate studies that target drug users who are being punished by law, and accordingly, no study on suicidal ideation among substance users has been accomplished yet. In this study, the factors that affect substance users’ suicidal ideation were confirmed. METHODS: It was based on the data collected from 'The 2009 Study on Substance-Dependent Individuals in Korea’ , which was conducted by The Catholic University of Korea in 2010 as a project sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Korea. This study targeted 523 former hospital inpatients, prison inmates, and persons under protective supervision who had used substances such as psychotropic drugs, marijuana, and narcotic agents, and were in the recovery stage at various treatment/rehabilitation centers. Student’s t and chi-square tests were used, and multivariate analysis was performed to examine the strength of the relationships between suicide ideation and various factors. RESULTS: According to this study, 41% of these substance users planned suicide with suicidal ideation. Suicidal ideation was confirmed as associated with an unsatisfactory domestic environment, insufficient and unsatisfactory spare time experiences with others, emotional abuse, severe depression, and trouble with controlling violent behavior. Of the substance users who had planned to commit suicide, 56% attempted suicide. Their suicide attempts were shown to have been associated with insufficient protective supervision and the experiences of physical abuse, trouble with controlling violent behavior, and doctors’ prescriptions due to psychological or emotional problems. CONCLUSION: Based on this analysis of the factors that affect suicidal behavior, preventive measures and strategies for substance user were suggested in this study. |
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spelling | pubmed-41750902014-09-26 Factors that affect substance users’ suicidal behavior: a view from the Addiction Severity Index in Korea Kwon, Min Yang, Soo Park, Kyongran Kim, Dai-Jin Ann Gen Psychiatry Primary Research BACKGROUND: In South Korea, it has not been easy to negotiate studies that target drug users who are being punished by law, and accordingly, no study on suicidal ideation among substance users has been accomplished yet. In this study, the factors that affect substance users’ suicidal ideation were confirmed. METHODS: It was based on the data collected from 'The 2009 Study on Substance-Dependent Individuals in Korea’ , which was conducted by The Catholic University of Korea in 2010 as a project sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Korea. This study targeted 523 former hospital inpatients, prison inmates, and persons under protective supervision who had used substances such as psychotropic drugs, marijuana, and narcotic agents, and were in the recovery stage at various treatment/rehabilitation centers. Student’s t and chi-square tests were used, and multivariate analysis was performed to examine the strength of the relationships between suicide ideation and various factors. RESULTS: According to this study, 41% of these substance users planned suicide with suicidal ideation. Suicidal ideation was confirmed as associated with an unsatisfactory domestic environment, insufficient and unsatisfactory spare time experiences with others, emotional abuse, severe depression, and trouble with controlling violent behavior. Of the substance users who had planned to commit suicide, 56% attempted suicide. Their suicide attempts were shown to have been associated with insufficient protective supervision and the experiences of physical abuse, trouble with controlling violent behavior, and doctors’ prescriptions due to psychological or emotional problems. CONCLUSION: Based on this analysis of the factors that affect suicidal behavior, preventive measures and strategies for substance user were suggested in this study. BioMed Central 2013-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4175090/ /pubmed/24220264 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-12-35 Text en Copyright © 2013 Kwon et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Primary Research Kwon, Min Yang, Soo Park, Kyongran Kim, Dai-Jin Factors that affect substance users’ suicidal behavior: a view from the Addiction Severity Index in Korea |
title | Factors that affect substance users’ suicidal behavior: a view from the Addiction Severity Index in Korea |
title_full | Factors that affect substance users’ suicidal behavior: a view from the Addiction Severity Index in Korea |
title_fullStr | Factors that affect substance users’ suicidal behavior: a view from the Addiction Severity Index in Korea |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors that affect substance users’ suicidal behavior: a view from the Addiction Severity Index in Korea |
title_short | Factors that affect substance users’ suicidal behavior: a view from the Addiction Severity Index in Korea |
title_sort | factors that affect substance users’ suicidal behavior: a view from the addiction severity index in korea |
topic | Primary Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4175090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24220264 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-12-35 |
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