@article{ref1,
title="Socio-economic and psychological correlates of suicidality among Hong Kong working-age adults: results from a population-based survey",
journal="Psychological medicine",
year="2006",
author="Liu, Ka-Yuet and Chen, Eunice Y. and Chan, Chien-Lung and Lee, Dominic T. S. and Law, Yik-wa and Conwell, Yeates and Yip, Paul S. F.",
volume="36",
number="12",
pages="1759-1767",
abstract="Background. The global toll of suicide is estimated to be one million lives per year, which exceeded the number of deaths by homicide and war combined. A key step to suicide prevention is to prevent less serious suicidal behaviour to preclude more lethal outcomes. Although 61% of the world's suicides take place in Asia and the suicide rates among middle age groups have been increasing since the economic crisis in many Asian countries, population-based studies of suicidal behaviour among working-age adults in non-western communities are scarce.Method. Data from a population-based survey with 2015 participants were used to estimate the prevalence of suicidal ideation and behaviour among the working-age population in Hong Kong, and to study the associated socio-economic and psychological correlates. We focused particularly on potential modulating factors between life-event-related factors and suicidal ideation.Results. Six per cent of the Hong Kong population aged 20-59 years considered suicide in the past year, while 1.4% attempted suicide. Hopelessness, reasons for living, and reluctance to seek help from family and friends had direct association with past-year suicidal ideation. Reasons for living were found to moderate the effect of perceived stress on suicidal ideation.Conclusions. Suicidality is a multi-faceted problem that calls for a multi-sectored, multi-layered approach to prevention. Prevention programmes can work on modulating factors such as reasons for living to reduce suicidal risk in working-age adults.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2917",
doi="10.1017/S0033291706009032",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291706009032"
}