ArticleActa psychiatrica Scandinavica2022
Proportion of suicides in Denmark attributable to bereavement by the suicide of a first-degree relative or partner: Nested case-control study.
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- Perceived Effectiveness of Components of Interventions to Support People Bereaved By Suicide.Crisis · 2025Pooled it
- Impacts of suicide bereavement on men: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- The Aarhus bereavement study (TABstudy).European journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Gendered patterns of common mental health outcomes and suicidal ideation after suicide bereavement and the role of perceived social support.Health promotion international · 2026Article
- Surviving families: experiences of losing a family member to suicide.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Men's experiences of suicide bereavement: a qualitative study of psychosocial impacts and coping.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The role of depression and use of alcohol and other drugs after partner suicide in the association between suicide bereavement and suicide: cohort study in the Danish population.Psychological medicine · 2024Article
- Investigating risk of self-harm and suicide on anniversaries after bereavement by suicide and other causes: a Danish population-based self-controlled case series study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2023Article
- Proportion of suicides in Denmark attributable to bereavement by the suicide of a first-degree relative or partner: Nested case-control study.Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2022Article
- Investigating Whether Bereavement by Suicide and Other Unnatural Causes Has a Deterrent Effect on Alcohol or Drug Use in Young Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo provide the first estimates of the risk of suicide after bereavement by the suicide of any first-degree relative and the proportion of suicides in Denmark attributable to suicide bereavement.
methodsWe conducted a nationwide nested case-control study defining cases as all Danish-born individuals who died by suicide in Denmark between 01 January 1980 and 31 December 2016 (n = 32,248), age-matched to four living controls. Using three exposure categories (bereavement by the suicide of a relative [parent, offspring, sibling, and spouse/cohabitee]; non-suicide bereavement; no bereavement) and conditional logistic regression adjusted for pre-specified covariates we estimated the odds of exposure to suicide bereavement in cases versus controls. We tested whether associations differed for men and women, estimated the population attributable fraction (PAF) of suicides in our population at risk that could be attributed to a first-degree relative's suicide loss, and estimated the attributable fraction among the exposed (AFe).
resultsSuicide bereavement was associated with an increased odds of suicide when compared with no bereavement (OR
conclusionSuicide bereavement in relatives and partners contributes to at least one in 145 suicides in Denmark.
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