Archives of Suicide Research
Volume 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-55

Attempted suicide among swedish-born people and foreign-born migrants (Article)

Bayard-Burfield L.* , Sundquist J. , Johansson S.-E. , Träskman-Bendz L.
  • a Department of Community Health Sciences Dalby/Lund, University of Lund, Sweden
  • b Department of Community Health Sciences Dalby/Lund, University of Lund, Sweden
  • c Department of Community Health Sciences Dalby/Lund, University of Lund, Sweden
  • d Department of Psychiatry, University of Lund, Sweden

Abstract

The present study focuses on 938 suicide attempts by Swedes and foreign-born people living in the catchment area of Lund University Hospital between 1991 and 1994. Foreign-born women older than 74 years of age had the highest rates for attempted suicide. Foreign-born women and men aged 45-54 years had two and three times higher rates for suicide attempt respectively than Swedes in the same age group. When adjusted for age, foreign-born people had a higher Incidence Density Ratio (IDR) for attempted suicide than Swedish-born people (IDR = 1.72, CI = 1.45-2.03). People living alone had a much higher risk of suicide attempt than those who were married (IDR = 3.13, CI = 2.69-3.65). The conclusion of the present article is that, when adjusted for age, foreign-born migrants have a higher risk of attempted suicide than Swedish-born people. © 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Suicide attempt Ethnicity Marital status Poisson regression

Index Keywords

male controlled study human female priority journal immigrant lifestyle Aged regression analysis ethnology Article marriage Sweden adult suicide attempt
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0033005734&doi=10.1080%2f13811119908258314&partnerID=40&md5=90ba736f9e54a49ff578790563a95492
DOI: 10.1080/13811119908258314
ISSN: 13811118
Cited by: 14
Original Language: English