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Article: How to make adjustments of underreporting of suicide by place, gender, and age in China?

TitleHow to make adjustments of underreporting of suicide by place, gender, and age in China?
Authors
KeywordsSuicide
Underreporting
Accidental death
China
Issue Date2020
PublisherSpringer Medizin. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.springer.com/steinkopff/psychiatrie/journal/127
Citation
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2020, v. 55, p. 1133-1143 How to Cite?
AbstractPurpose: Underreporting of suicide is a worldwide problem. In particular, the national suicide rates published by the Chinese Ministry of Health (“MOH”) could be severely underreported. Validity of the assumption of evenly underreported of suicide by place (city/rural), gender, and age in China has been evaluated and some possible adjustments to the underreporting have been suggested. Methods: Mortality rates from the MOH from 2002 to 2016 were extracted. Due to zero undetermined deaths, accidental deaths (weighted by causes of death) were used to evaluate underreported suicides. 53% of drownings, 11% of falls, 11% of poisonings, and 7% of other accidents were assumed as underreported suicides. Negative binomial regressions were used to calculate the rate ratios of the underreported suicides compared to suicides. Negative binomial regressions were also used to calculate the annual percentage changes of different mortality rates. Results: Suicides of rural males could most likely be underreported (49%; 95% CI 39–61%), but suicides of rural females would least likely (30%; 95% CI 24–38%). Suicides of people aged 15–24 years and 75 years and above could more likely to be underreported than other ages. After adding the underreported suicides, declining trends of the national suicide rates had been eased. Conclusions: People who lack social connection could have a high possibility of underreporting suicide. However, when rural females died of unnatural causes, their parents or even the whole village tended to quest for their intents, thus rural females had a lower possibility of underreporting suicide.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/305941
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 3.6
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.780
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DC FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributor.authorLi, F-
dc.contributor.authorYip, PSF-
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-20T10:16:32Z-
dc.date.available2021-10-20T10:16:32Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationSocial Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2020, v. 55, p. 1133-1143-
dc.identifier.issn0933-7954-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/305941-
dc.description.abstractPurpose: Underreporting of suicide is a worldwide problem. In particular, the national suicide rates published by the Chinese Ministry of Health (“MOH”) could be severely underreported. Validity of the assumption of evenly underreported of suicide by place (city/rural), gender, and age in China has been evaluated and some possible adjustments to the underreporting have been suggested. Methods: Mortality rates from the MOH from 2002 to 2016 were extracted. Due to zero undetermined deaths, accidental deaths (weighted by causes of death) were used to evaluate underreported suicides. 53% of drownings, 11% of falls, 11% of poisonings, and 7% of other accidents were assumed as underreported suicides. Negative binomial regressions were used to calculate the rate ratios of the underreported suicides compared to suicides. Negative binomial regressions were also used to calculate the annual percentage changes of different mortality rates. Results: Suicides of rural males could most likely be underreported (49%; 95% CI 39–61%), but suicides of rural females would least likely (30%; 95% CI 24–38%). Suicides of people aged 15–24 years and 75 years and above could more likely to be underreported than other ages. After adding the underreported suicides, declining trends of the national suicide rates had been eased. Conclusions: People who lack social connection could have a high possibility of underreporting suicide. However, when rural females died of unnatural causes, their parents or even the whole village tended to quest for their intents, thus rural females had a lower possibility of underreporting suicide.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherSpringer Medizin. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.springer.com/steinkopff/psychiatrie/journal/127-
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology-
dc.rightsAccepted Manuscript (AAM) This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in [insert journal title]. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/[insert DOI]-
dc.subjectSuicide-
dc.subjectUnderreporting-
dc.subjectAccidental death-
dc.subjectChina-
dc.titleHow to make adjustments of underreporting of suicide by place, gender, and age in China?-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailYip, PSF: sfpyip@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityYip, PSF=rp00596-
dc.description.naturelink_to_subscribed_fulltext-
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00127-020-01856-2-
dc.identifier.pmid32221643-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85082966286-
dc.identifier.hkuros327331-
dc.identifier.volume55-
dc.identifier.spage1133-
dc.identifier.epage1143-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000521920800001-
dc.publisher.placeGermany-

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