ArticlePloS one2015
Suicides in Visually Impaired Persons: A Nation-Wide Register-Linked Study from Finland Based on Thirty Years of Data.
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- Visual Impairment and Suicide Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2024Pooled it
- Pre-Existing Medical Conditions: A Systematic Literature Review of a Silent Contributor to Adult Drowning.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Eye disease and mortality, cognition, disease, and modifiable risk factors: an umbrella review of meta-analyses of observational studies.Eye (London, England) · 2022Pooled it
- Deliberate self-harm and suicide in individuals with cannabis-related hospital contacts in Ontario, Canada.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Prevalence and Factors Associated with Suicidal Ideation Among Older People with Visual Impairments Attending an Eye Center During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Article
- Emotions and Feelings as Predictors of Depression and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders among Children and Adolescents with Complete Blindness.Rwanda journal of medicine and health sciences · 2022Article
- Association between functional disability type and suicide-related outcomes among U.S. adults with disabilities in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2015-2019.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Article
- Synodic lunar phases and suicide: based on 2605 suicides over 23 years, a full moon peak is apparent in premenopausal women from northern Finland.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Article
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- Visual Impairment and Mental Health: Unmet Needs and Treatment Options.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Review
- Health, work, social trust, and financial situation in persons with Usher syndrome type 1.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Focusing on seasonality, gender, age, and suicide methods a Finnish nation-wide cohort-based study was carried out to compare suicide data between sighted, visually-impaired (WHO impairment level I-II, i.e., visual acuity >0.05, but <0.3) and blind (WHO impairment level III-V, i.e., visual acuity <0.05) victims. Standardized mortality ratios (SMR) of age- and gender-matched populations from official 1982-2011 national registers were used. Group differences in categorical variables were assessed with Pearson's Chi-square or Fisher's Exact test and in continuous variables with Mann-Whitney U-test. Seasonality was assessed by Chi-square for multinomials; ratio of observed to expected number of suicides was calculated with 95% confidence level. Hanging, poisoning, drowning, but rarely shooting or jumping from high places, were preferred suicide methods of the blind. Mortality was significantly increased in the visually impaired (SMR = 1.3; 95% CI 1.07-1.61), but in gender-stratified analyses the increase only affected males (1.34; 95% CI = 1.06-1.70) and not females (1.24; 95% CI 0.82-1.88). Age-stratified analyses identified blind males of working age rather than older men (as in the general population) as a high risk group that requires particular attention. The statistically significant spring suicide peak in blind subjects mirrors that of sighted victims and its possible cause in the blind is discussed.
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