TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk factors for suicide in Bangladesh
T2 - Case-control psychological autopsy study
AU - Arafat, S. M.Yasir
AU - Mohit, M. A.
AU - Mullick, Mohammad S.I.
AU - Kabir, Russell
AU - Khan, Murad M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the Professor Md. Waziul Alam Chowdhury Research Grant 2019 (Bangladeshi Taka 50 000), which was awarded by the Bangladesh Association of Psychiatrists (to S.M.Y.A., grant number PMWAC122019RG, awarded in 2019).
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Background Suicide is an important, understudied public health problem in Bangladesh, where risk factors for suicide have not been investigated by case-control psychological autopsy study. Aims To identify the major risk factors for suicide in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Methods We designed a matched case-control psychological autopsy study. We conducted a semi-structured interview with the next-of-kin of 100 individuals who died by suicide and 100 living controls, matched for age, gender and area of residence. The study was conducted from July 2019 to July 2020. Results The odds ratios for the risk factors were 15.33 (95% CI, 4.76-49.30) for the presence of a psychiatric disorder, 17.75 (95% CI, 6.48-48.59) for life events, 65.28 (95% CI, 0.75-5644.48) for previous attempts and 12 (95% CI, 1.56-92.29) for sexual abuse. Conclusions The presence of a psychiatric disorder, immediate life events, previous suicidal attempts and sexual abuse were found as significant risk factors for suicide in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
AB - Background Suicide is an important, understudied public health problem in Bangladesh, where risk factors for suicide have not been investigated by case-control psychological autopsy study. Aims To identify the major risk factors for suicide in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Methods We designed a matched case-control psychological autopsy study. We conducted a semi-structured interview with the next-of-kin of 100 individuals who died by suicide and 100 living controls, matched for age, gender and area of residence. The study was conducted from July 2019 to July 2020. Results The odds ratios for the risk factors were 15.33 (95% CI, 4.76-49.30) for the presence of a psychiatric disorder, 17.75 (95% CI, 6.48-48.59) for life events, 65.28 (95% CI, 0.75-5644.48) for previous attempts and 12 (95% CI, 1.56-92.29) for sexual abuse. Conclusions The presence of a psychiatric disorder, immediate life events, previous suicidal attempts and sexual abuse were found as significant risk factors for suicide in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
KW - Bangladesh
KW - Risk factors
KW - case-control study
KW - psychological autopsy
KW - suicide
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U2 - 10.1192/bjo.2020.152
DO - 10.1192/bjo.2020.152
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85105590252
SN - 2056-4724
VL - 7
JO - BJPsych Open
JF - BJPsych Open
IS - 1
M1 - e18
ER -
