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SynthesisPloS one2015

Alcohol-related risk of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, and completed suicide: a meta-analysis.

Nahid Darvishi, Mehran Farhadi, Tahereh Haghtalab, Jalal Poorolajal

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Synthesis in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 188 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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188 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nahid DarvishiDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Hamadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamadan, Iran.
Mehran FarhadiDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University Hamadan, Iran.
Tahereh HaghtalabDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Hamadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamadan, Iran.
Jalal PoorolajalModeling of Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSeveral original studies have investigated the effect of alcohol use disorder (AUD) on suicidal thought and behavior, but there are serious discrepancies across the studies. Thus, a systematic assessment of the association between AUD and suicide is required.

methodsWe searched PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus until February 2015. We also searched the Psycinfo web site and journals and contacted authors. We included observational (cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional) studies addressing the association between AUD and suicide. The exposure of interest was AUD. The primary outcomes were suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, and completed suicide. We assessed heterogeneity using Q-test and I2 statistic. We explored publication bias using the Egger's and Begg's tests and funnel plot. We meta-analyzed the data with the random-effects models. For each outcome we calculated the overall odds ratio (OR) or risk ratio (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).

resultsWe included 31 out of 8548 retrieved studies, with 420,732 participants. There was a significant association between AUD and suicidal ideation (OR=1.86; 95% CI: 1.38, 2.35), suicide attempt (OR=3.13; 95% CI: 2.45, 3.81); and completed suicide (OR=2.59; 95% CI: 1.95, 3.23 and RR=1.74; 95% CI: 1.26, 2.21). There was a significant heterogeneity among the studies, but little concern to the presence of publication bias.

conclusionsThere is sufficient evidence that AUD significantly increases the risk of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, and completed suicide. Therefore, AUD can be considered an important predictor of suicide and a great source of premature death.

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Suicidal IdeationAlcohol-Related DisordersEthanolFemaleHumansMalePublication BiasRegression AnalysisRisk FactorsSuicide, AttemptedEthanol

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PMCPMC4439031

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