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Sequences for reporting on mild and serious types of suicidal behaviours: A population-based study in Latvia in 2010-2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2022
Abstract
Latvia is listed as a country with one of the highest suicide mortality rates in European Union (National Statistical System of Latvia, 2021).
To assess the sequences for reporting of suicidal behaviours (SB) in Latvian general population.
The study is based on secondary data of the Health Behaviour Among Latvian Adult Population survey, provided by the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia (representative sample of the Latvian population aged 15-64 in 2010, 2012, 2014; 15-74 in 2016, 2018; (n=16,105). Respondents were asked to report the occurrence of life-weariness (LW), death wishes (DW), suicidal ideation (SI), suicidal plans (SP), suicide attempts (SA) during the previous year.
Statistically significant differences between genders were found for LW (Χ²=17.118; df=1; p<0.001; AR=±4.1), DW (Χ²=17.764; df=1; p<0.001; AR=±3.8) and any type of SB (Χ²=15.721; df=1; p<0.001; AR=±3.8). Frequencies of individual sequences of reporting last year SB are presented in Table.
Sequences for reporting on SB in 2010-2018 | ||
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N | % | |
Continious | ||
LW | 885 | 35.3 |
LW+DW | 746 | 29.7 |
LW+DW+SI | 255 | 10.2 |
LW+DW+SI+SP | 300 | 12.0 |
LW+DW+SI+SP+SA | 51 | 2.0 |
Continious not complete | ||
DW | 146 | 5.8 |
DW+SI | 13 | 0.5 |
Non-continious | ||
LW+DW+SI+SA | 0 | 0.0 |
LW+DW+SP | 13 | 0.5 |
LW+SI | 44 | 1.8 |
LW+SI+SP | 7 | 0.3 |
LW+SI+SP+SA | 1 | 0.0 |
LW+SP | 8 | 0.3 |
DW+SI+SA | 0 | 0.0 |
DW+SP | 0 | 0.0 |
SI | 16 | 0.6 |
SI+SA | 0 | 0.0 |
SI+SP | 3 | 0.1 |
SP | 13 | 0.5 |
Other | 9 | 0.4 |
Total | 2510 | 100 |
Further research is warranted to identify vulnerable groups in the Latvian general population in relation to suicidality and thus to develop targeted preventive measures.
This work has been developed with financing from the European Social Fund and Latvian state budget within the project no. 8.2.2.0/20/I/004 “Support for involving doctoral students in scientific research and studies at Rīga Stradiņš University.
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- European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S838
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