ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2012
Suicide methods in Asia: implications in suicide prevention.
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56 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Japanese Cohort Study Identifies an Association Between the Serotonin Transporter-Linked Polymorphic Region and Suicide Death.Neuropsychopharmacology reports · 2026Pooled it
- Suicide by sodium nitrite ingestion: a systematic review.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Pooled it
- The Pooled Prevalence of Attributed Factors of Suicide in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Archives of Iranian medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Suicidal incidence and gender-based discrepancies in prolonged grief disorder: insights from a meta-analysis and systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Estimating the risk of suicide associated with mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis.Journal of psychiatric research · 2021Pooled it
- Safety of a topical insect repellent (picaridin) during community mass use for malaria control in rural Cambodia.PloS one · 2017Trial
- Suicide by suffocation among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Veterans in the USA (2012-2018).Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2026Article
- Methods of Suicide Used by People With Cancer: A Scoping Review.Psycho-oncology · 2026Article
- Longer-term impact of pesticide bans on suicide in South Korea.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- An in-depth assessment of the effectiveness of Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) packages in improving self-esteem among suicide-attempted individuals: A case study in a selected district of Tamilnadu, India.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Development and Use of Suicide Registry for Recording Patient Profile with Self-harm Visiting Tertiary Hospital of Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study.JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association · 2024Article
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- Adolescent suicide risk factors and the integration of social-emotional skills in school-based prevention programs.World journal of psychiatry · 2024Review
- Epidemiological characteristics and behaviors of online broadcast suicidality in China: implications for targeted prevention strategies.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Spatio-temporal analysis of deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning in Iran between 2011 and 2018: An ecological study.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Suicide attempt among Malaysian school-going adolescents: relationship with bullying.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Firearm Possession Rates in Home Countries and Firearm Suicide Rates Among US- and Foreign-Born Suicide Decedents in the United States: Analysis of Combined Data from the National Violent Death Reporting System and the Small Arms Survey.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2023Article
- Surveillance of pesticide poisoning in an East and a West Malaysian hospital: characteristics of pesticide poisoning and the early impact of a national Paraquat ban.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Instability of emotional relationships and suicide among youth: a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Sex differences in the factors that affect medical lethality in elderly suicide attempters.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
As the largest continent in the World, Asia accounts for about 60% of World suicides. Preventing suicide by restricting access to suicide methods is one of the few evidence-based suicide prevention strategies. However, there has been a lack of systematic exploration of suicide methods in Asian countries. To amend this shortage, the current review examines the leading suicide methods in different Asian countries, their trend, their age- and sex- specific characteristics, and their implications for suicide prevention. In total, 42 articles with leading suicide methods data in 17 Asian countries/regions were retrieved. The epidemiologic characteristics and recent trends of common suicide methods reflect specific socio-cultural, economic, and religious situations in the region. Common suicide methods shift with the introduction of technologies and constructions, and have specific age- or sex-characteristics that may render the restriction of suicide methods not equally effective for all sex and age sub-groups. Charcoal burning, pesticide poisoning, native plant poisoning, self-immolation, and jumping are all prominent examples. In the information society, suicide prevention that focuses on suicide methods must monitor and control the innovation and spread of knowledge and practices of suicide "technologies". It may be more cost-effective to design safety into technologies as a way of suicide prevention while there is no rash of suicides yet by the new technologies. Further research on suicide methods is important for public health approaches to suicide prevention with sensitivity to socio-cultural, economic, and religious factors in different countries.
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