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Suicide in young men

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Pitman, Alexandra, Krysinska, Karolina, Osborn, David, King, Michael·2012·The Lancet
DOI 10.1016/s0140-6736(12)60731-4
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Suicide is second to only accidental death as the leading cause of mortality in young men across the world. Although suicide rates for young men have fallen in some high-income and middle-income countries since the 1990s, wider mortality measures indicate that rates remain high in specific regions, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic groups within those nations where rates have fallen, and that young men account for a substantial proportion of the economic cost of suicide. High-lethality methods of suicide are preferred by young men: hanging and firearms in high-income countries, pesticide poisoning in the Indian subcontinent, and charcoal-burning in east Asia. Risk factors for young men include psychiatric illness, substance misuse, lower socioeconomic status, rural residence, and single marital status. Population-level factors include unemployment, social deprivation, and media reporting of suicide. Few interventions to reduce suicides in young men have been assessed. Efforts to change help-seeking behaviour and to restrict access to frequently used methods hold the most promise.

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Authors
Pitman, A., Krysinska, K., Osborn, D., & King, M.
Affiliations
  • University College London (GB)
  • KU Leuven (BE)
ORCID
Venue
The Lancet
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-06
Volume
379
Issue
9834
Pages
2383-2392
ISSN
  • 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
  • 0140-6736
DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(12)60731-4
OpenAlex
W2152385604
Cited by
144
References
130
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FWCI
2.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • The Lancet (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Scholarship@Western (Western University) (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (ACF-2007-18-010)
  • Suicide Prevention Australia
  • Medical Research Council
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
Keywords
suicide, young men, suicide mortality, suicide methods, hanging, firearm suicide, pesticide poisoning, charcoal burning, suicide risk factors, mental illness, substance abuse, socioeconomic status, unemployment, social deprivation, media coverage of suicide, help-seeking, suicide prevention interventions
MeSH terms
Suicide Prevention, Adult, Cause of Death, Female, Humans, Male, Risk Factors, Suicide, Global Health, Age Distribution, Sex Distribution, History, 20th Century, Young Adult

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