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Relationship of suicide rates to economic variables in Europe: 2000-2011

. 2014 Dec ; 205 (6) : 486-96. [epub] 20141030

Language English Country Great Britain, England Media print-electronic

Document type Journal Article, Observational Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

BACKGROUND: It is unclear whether there is a direct link between economic crises and changes in suicide rates. AIMS: The Lopez-Ibor Foundation launched an initiative to study the possible impact of the economic crisis on European suicide rates. METHOD: Data was gathered and analysed from 29 European countries and included the number of deaths by suicide in men and women, the unemployment rate, the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, the annual economic growth rate and inflation. RESULTS: There was a strong correlation between suicide rates and all economic indices except GPD per capita in men but only a correlation with unemployment in women. However, the increase in suicide rates occurred several months before the economic crisis emerged. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, this study confirms a general relationship between the economic environment and suicide rates; however, it does not support there being a clear causal relationship between the current economic crisis and an increase in the suicide rate.

Konstantinos N Fountoulakis MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry 3rd Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece; Wolfram Kawohl MD Center for Social Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Psychiatric Hospital University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland; Pavlos N Theodorakis MD Mental Health Hospitals Trust of Attica 'Dafni and Dromokaiteio' and WHO National Counterpart for Mental Health Athens Greece; Ad J F M Kerkhof MD Faculty of Psychology and Education Department of Clinical Psychology VU University Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands; Alvydas Navickas MD PhD Associate Professor Psychiatric Clinic Vilnius University Medical Faculty Vilnius Lithuania; Cyril Höschl MD Prague Psychiatric Center NIMH Czech Republic; Dusica Lecic Tosevski MD Professor of Psychiatry Belgrade University School of Medicine and Institute of Mental Health WHO Collaborating Centre Belgrade Serbia; Eliot Sorel MD The George Washington University School of Medicine and School of Public Health Washington DC USA; Elmars Rancans MD PhD Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Narcology Riga Stradins University Latvia; Eva Palova MD Department of Psychiatry University Hospital Slovakia; Georg Juckel MD PhD Department of Psychiatry Ruhr University Bochum LWL University Hospital Bochum Germany; Goran Isacsson MD Associate Professor Department of Clinical Neuroscience Karolinska Institutet Sweden; Helena Korosec Jagodic Psychiatric Hospital Vojnik Vojnik Slovenia; Ileana Botezat Antonescu MD Associate Professor National Mental Health Center and Anti drug Bucharest Romania; Ingeborg Warnke PhD Center for Social Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Psychiatric Hospital University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland; Janusz Rybakowski Department of Adult Psychiatry Poznan University of Medical Sciences Poznan Poland; Je

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Br J Psychiatry. 2015 Feb;206(2):169 PubMed   Andrasen, Ole [corrected to Andreassen, Ole]

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