Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27830639›Full record

ArticleEpidemiology and psychiatric sciences2018

Cross-national comparisons of increasing suicidal mortality rates for Koreans in the Republic of Korea and Korean Americans in the USA, 2003-2012.

A Kung, K G Hastings, K I Kapphahn, E J Wang, M R Cullen, S L Ivey, L P Palaniappan, S Chung

Open access · hybridAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 82% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

A KungUC Berkeley - UCSF Joint Medical Program,University of California,Berkeley,California,USA.
K G HastingsDivision of General Medical Disciplines,Stanford University School of Medicine,Stanford,California,USA.
K I KapphahnQuantitative Sciences Unit,Stanford University School of Medicine,Stanford,California,USA.
E J WangStanford Prevention Research Center,Stanford University School of Medicine,Stanford,California,USA.
M R CullenPopulation Health Sciences,Stanford University School of Medicine,Stanford,California,USA.
S L IveySchool of Public Health,University of California,Berkeley,California,USA.
L P PalaniappanDivision of General Medical Disciplines,Stanford University School of Medicine,Stanford,California,USA.
S ChungResearch Institute, Palo Alto Medical Foundation,Palo Alto,California,USA.
Stanford University · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · USPalo Alto Institute · US

Funding

CAUSES: Causes of Asian American mortality Understood by Socio-Economic StatusR01MD007012 · NIMHD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CULLEN, MARK RICHARD, PALANIAPPAN, LATHA P · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD007012
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimsKorea has the highest suicide rate of developed countries, two times higher than the USA. Suicide trends among Koreans Americans living in the USA during the same period have not yet been described. We report suicide mortality rates and trends for four groups: (1) Korean Americans, (2) non-Hispanic White (NHW) Americans, (3) selected Asian American subgroups and (4) Koreans living in the Republic of Korea.

methodsWe used US national (n = 18 113 585) and World Health Organization (WHO) (n = 232 919 253) mortality records for Korea from 2003 to 2012 to calculate suicide rates, all expressed per 100 000 persons. We assessed temporal trends and differences in age, gender and race/ethnicity using binomial regression.

resultsSuicide rates are highest in Koreans living in the Republic of Korea (32.4 for men and 14.8 for women). Suicide rates in Korean Americans (13.9 for men and 6.5 for women) have nearly doubled from 2003 to 2012 and exceed rates for all other Asian American subgroups (5.4-10.7 for men and 1.6-4.2 for women). Suicide rates among NHWs (21.0 for men and 5.6 for women) remain high. Among elders, suicide in Korean Americans (32.9 for men and 15.4 for women) is the highest of all examined racial/ethnic groups in the USA.

conclusionsSuicide in Korean Americans is higher than for other Asian Americans and follows temporal patterns more similar to Korea than the USA. Interventions to prevent suicide in Korean American populations, particularly among the elderly, are needed.

Indexed as

AdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAsianChildChild, PreschoolCross-Cultural ComparisonFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleMiddle AgedRepublic of KoreaSuicideCommunity mental healthelderlyepidemiologysuicide

Identifiers

PMID27830639
PMCPMC6998889
OpenAlexW2551373590

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.