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Socio-Economic Position and Suicidal Ideation in Men
People in low socio-economic positions are over-represented in suicide statistics and are at heightened risk for non-fatal suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Few studies have tried to tease out the relationship between individual-level and area-level socio-economic position, however. We used data fro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5409566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28362354 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14040365 |
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author | Pirkis, Jane Currier, Dianne Butterworth, Peter Milner, Allison Kavanagh, Anne Tibble, Holly Robinson, Jo Spittal, Matthew J. |
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description | People in low socio-economic positions are over-represented in suicide statistics and are at heightened risk for non-fatal suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Few studies have tried to tease out the relationship between individual-level and area-level socio-economic position, however. We used data from Ten to Men (the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health) to investigate the relationship between individual-level and area-level socio-economic position and suicidal thinking in 12,090 men. We used a measure of unemployment/employment and occupational skill level as our individual-level indicator of socio-economic position. We used the Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (a composite multidimensional construct created by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that combines information from a range of area-level variables, including the prevalence of unemployment and employment in low skilled occupations) as our area-level indicator. We assessed suicidal thinking using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). We found that even after controlling for common predictors of suicidal thinking; low individual-level and area-level socio-economic position heightened risk. Individual-level socio-economic position appeared to exert the greater influence of the two; however. There is an onus on policy makers and planners from within and outside the mental health sector to take individual- and area-level socio-economic position into account when they are developing strategic initiatives. |
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spelling | pubmed-54095662017-05-03 Socio-Economic Position and Suicidal Ideation in Men Pirkis, Jane Currier, Dianne Butterworth, Peter Milner, Allison Kavanagh, Anne Tibble, Holly Robinson, Jo Spittal, Matthew J. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article People in low socio-economic positions are over-represented in suicide statistics and are at heightened risk for non-fatal suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Few studies have tried to tease out the relationship between individual-level and area-level socio-economic position, however. We used data from Ten to Men (the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health) to investigate the relationship between individual-level and area-level socio-economic position and suicidal thinking in 12,090 men. We used a measure of unemployment/employment and occupational skill level as our individual-level indicator of socio-economic position. We used the Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (a composite multidimensional construct created by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that combines information from a range of area-level variables, including the prevalence of unemployment and employment in low skilled occupations) as our area-level indicator. We assessed suicidal thinking using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). We found that even after controlling for common predictors of suicidal thinking; low individual-level and area-level socio-economic position heightened risk. Individual-level socio-economic position appeared to exert the greater influence of the two; however. There is an onus on policy makers and planners from within and outside the mental health sector to take individual- and area-level socio-economic position into account when they are developing strategic initiatives. MDPI 2017-03-31 2017-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5409566/ /pubmed/28362354 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14040365 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Pirkis, Jane Currier, Dianne Butterworth, Peter Milner, Allison Kavanagh, Anne Tibble, Holly Robinson, Jo Spittal, Matthew J. Socio-Economic Position and Suicidal Ideation in Men |
title | Socio-Economic Position and Suicidal Ideation in Men |
title_full | Socio-Economic Position and Suicidal Ideation in Men |
title_fullStr | Socio-Economic Position and Suicidal Ideation in Men |
title_full_unstemmed | Socio-Economic Position and Suicidal Ideation in Men |
title_short | Socio-Economic Position and Suicidal Ideation in Men |
title_sort | socio-economic position and suicidal ideation in men |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5409566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28362354 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14040365 |
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