Citation

Fang L, Zhang J. Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 2012; 33(3): 286-290.

Affiliation

Institute for Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou 310051, China; Shandong University Center for Suicide Prevention Research.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Zhonghua yi xue hui)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

22613380

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To explore the categories on suicide and their characteristic-clusters among rural young people of Chinese aged 15 - 34 in three provinces to provide evidence for suicide prevention. METHODS: A total number of 392 suicidal deaths and 416 live controls sampled from 16 counties of Shandong, Liaoning, Hunan provinces in China, were included in this study. Psychological Autopsy and Classification Tree methods were employed. Two informants were interviewed to collect the information of each subject. RESULTS: Expectation on future, mental disease, seeking guidance and support were important factors for the classification of suicide among rural young population, and their scores of standardized importance were 100, 97, 91 and 76, respectively. Desperation (including feeling about the future and expectation) seemed to be more important than mental disease, with 6 - 8 more scores on standardized importance. Five categories of rural young suicides were determined. Desperate people or patients with mental disease but with less desperation were the main two categories, accounting for 64.8% and 11.8% respectively. Sensitivity and specificity of this classification tree were 84.34% and 92.08%, respectively. CONCLUSION: For programs on suicide screening and prevention, evaluation on desperation seems more significant than screening on mental disease.

Language: zh