Talk:Epidemiology of suicide/Archive 1

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warning signs

Should there be a section on warning signs? There's one on teenage suicide but those signs could apply to people of all ages. Gflores ^Talk 21:40, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Also a section on correlations between occupations and suicide--dentists and police officers are two groups often cited as suicide-pronme occupational groups.--Buckboard 09:22, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

American-biased

It's kind of funny: I was content with this edit I made in Gender Differences; until I found this article!--Cloviz 02:06, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Wrong use of word Methodology

The term Methodology is used in the design and implementation of methods in scientific research. The term has this very specific use in Psychology. It is not professional or technically correct to refer to "methodology" in the context used here. Suicidal behavior is not a methodology. Mattisse 19:51, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Agree. The article should be renamed. Is Epidemiology of suicide ok? There is a separate article on Suicide methods. Nurg 22:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the backup. (Finally someone agrees.) This is a totatlly inappropriate name for this article. Sincerely, Mattisse 23:12, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I'll rename this and fix redirects when I get the chance. Mahanga^Talk 00:01, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Universal agreement. I made the change. Citynoise (talk) 17:13, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Motivations

I'm not sure that the Greek defense at Thermopylae should be listed as "suicide" - the Greeks did not seek to end their lives, but to harm and attack the enemy. It was extremely probable that they would die, but it was not suicide. The Greeks were not the instruments of their own deaths, as was the case with kamikaze attacks or self-immolations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.172.155.202 (talk) 03:25, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Sub-Saharan suicides not included in the list

Why aren't the "Sub-Saharan" suicide rates (about 30 according to the article) included country-wise in the list? If these suicide rate statistics are correct they would make it in the top ten list and alter the "Soviet Bloc"-profile the list has. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mogura (talk • contribs) 09:09, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Rural / urban differences

Here is an interesting paper Judd F, Cooper AM, Fraser C, Davis J (2006). "Rural suicide--people or place effects?". Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 40 (3): 208–16. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1614.2006.01776.x. PMID 16476147. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:42, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Statistics

All staticstics data in text must clearly indicate the date of the statement. Otherwise the can easily turn into mix-and-match of incomapable data. For example: "As many as 60,000 people commit suicide in Russia every year;[7] approximately 30,000 people die by suicide each year in the United States;[8] over 30,000 kill themselves in Japan;[9] " -- When collected? When reported? Who reported? All data in the same sentence, which implies comparison. But all refs are different, from different years, some are dead or inaccessible. This is bad, bad way of statistic. Bromador (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:48, 26 May 2010 (UTC).

Suicide and Religion

Contains only one sentence claiming that suicide is higher in less religious countries. The source it cites only mentions that Chinese people have a higher suicide rate than Christians or Hindus. It doesn't provide any suggestion that the cause of this is lack of religion. Intuition would provide several alternate theories as to why the suicide rate in China may be higher, and beside that, in China there is a confusion and often fear over what it is to identify as 'religious'. Stinks of religious propaganda to me. Save it for conservipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.30.29.250 (talk) 22:32, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Sexual orientation and suicide

It's the longest section of the article, but most of it seems about suicide attempts. Whether any of it is about suicide rates is unclear, given the nature of the references: while the sources for other sections clearly talk about mortality (titles like ..commit suicide.. , .. kill themselves, suicide rates, suicide statistics..), those for the sexual orientation section talk about attempts (..suicidal ideation, ..attempted suicide, Sexual orientation and suicide attempt .., Depression, hopelessness, suicidality, and related factors.., Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender "Attempted Suicide" Incidences...). The only study that explicitly mentions mortality rates is one that finds a correlation with (homo)sexual activity rather than with homosexual attraction and identity.
Despite all the references, the main question isn't answered: are suicide rates higher for gays and lesbians than for heteros? Ssscienccce (talk) 01:14, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

sub-saharan africa

That sub-saharan Africa contains the second largest rate of suicides is nowhere in the cited ref (a general WHO fact sheet). Also in the list of suicides by country put out by the WHO (duplicated in the list of countries by suicide rate article), the African country (sub-saharan or otherwise) highest on the list is South Africa at 22, and the next is Zimbabwe at 56. I am removing this unsourced and evidently erroneous line. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.65.169.68 (talk) 06:28, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Inverse correlation with height in males

See this study:

Strong Inverse Association Between Height and Suicide in a Large Cohort of Swedish Men: Evidence of Early Life Origins of Suicidal Behavior? Patrik K.E. Magnusson, Ph.D.; David Gunnell, M.D., Ph.D.; Per Tynelius, M.S.; George Davey Smith, M.D., Ph.D.; Finn Rasmussen, M.D., Ph.D. Am J Psychiatry 2005;162:1373-1375. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.162.7.1373

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15994722 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.30.229.147 (talk) 17:02, 1 November 2014 (UTC) http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=177657

Less formally, go to a big festival or other such event where there will be many random couples among the crowd, look for the most beautiful women, and then look at the height of their boyfriends/husbands in comparison to the average for all males and also in comparison to the woman's height. This will explain a lot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.193.89.2 (talk) 16:54, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

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"total" in table "Suicides per 100,000 people per year" doesn't add up

The first row (Lithuania), for example, says Males: 68.1; Females: 12.9; Total: 38.6. I'm not sure what's going on here. Can anyone shed some light on this (e.g. are the "total" figures from a different source/survey)? Elonbing (talk) 12:10, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

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