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Social isolation and suicide risk: Literature review and perspectives

BACKGROUND: Suicide is a major public health problem and a cause of premature mortality. With a view to prevention, a great deal of research has been devoted to the determinants of suicide, focusing mostly on individual risk factors, particularly depression. In addition to causes intrinsic to the in...

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Autores principales: Motillon-Toudic, Chloé, Walter, Michel, Séguin, Monique, Carrier, Jean-Daniel, Berrouiguet, Sofian, Lemey, Christophe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9641655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36216777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2320
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author Motillon-Toudic, Chloé
Walter, Michel
Séguin, Monique
Carrier, Jean-Daniel
Berrouiguet, Sofian
Lemey, Christophe
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description BACKGROUND: Suicide is a major public health problem and a cause of premature mortality. With a view to prevention, a great deal of research has been devoted to the determinants of suicide, focusing mostly on individual risk factors, particularly depression. In addition to causes intrinsic to the individual, the social environment has also been widely studied, particularly social isolation. This paper examines the social dimension of suicide etiology through a review of the literature on the relationship between suicide and social isolation. METHODS: Medline searches via PubMed and PsycINFO were conducted. The keywords were “suicid*” AND “isolation.” RESULTS: Of the 2,684 articles initially retrieved, 46 were included in the review. CONCLUSIONS: Supported by proven theoretical foundations, mainly those developed by E. Durkheim and T. Joiner, a large majority of the articles included endorse the idea of a causal relationship between social isolation and suicide, and conversely, a protective effect of social support against suicide. Moreover, the association between suicide and social isolation is subject to variations related to age, gender, psychopathology, and specific circumstances. The social etiology of suicide has implications for intervention and future research.
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spelling pubmed-96416552022-11-18 Social isolation and suicide risk: Literature review and perspectives Motillon-Toudic, Chloé Walter, Michel Séguin, Monique Carrier, Jean-Daniel Berrouiguet, Sofian Lemey, Christophe Eur Psychiatry Review/Meta-analysis BACKGROUND: Suicide is a major public health problem and a cause of premature mortality. With a view to prevention, a great deal of research has been devoted to the determinants of suicide, focusing mostly on individual risk factors, particularly depression. In addition to causes intrinsic to the individual, the social environment has also been widely studied, particularly social isolation. This paper examines the social dimension of suicide etiology through a review of the literature on the relationship between suicide and social isolation. METHODS: Medline searches via PubMed and PsycINFO were conducted. The keywords were “suicid*” AND “isolation.” RESULTS: Of the 2,684 articles initially retrieved, 46 were included in the review. CONCLUSIONS: Supported by proven theoretical foundations, mainly those developed by E. Durkheim and T. Joiner, a large majority of the articles included endorse the idea of a causal relationship between social isolation and suicide, and conversely, a protective effect of social support against suicide. Moreover, the association between suicide and social isolation is subject to variations related to age, gender, psychopathology, and specific circumstances. The social etiology of suicide has implications for intervention and future research. Cambridge University Press 2022-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9641655/ /pubmed/36216777 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2320 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9641655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36216777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2320
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