ArticleSSM - population health2022
Job loss, financial strain, and housing problems as suicide precipitants: Associations with other life stressors.
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- Causal association between employment transitions and suicide in Australia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Examining the Etiology of Asian American Suicide in the United States.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
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- Physical Health Problems as a Suicide Precipitant: Associations With Other Risk Factors and Suicide Methods in Three Age Groups of Older Decedents.Innovation in aging · 2023Article
- The Intersections Between Sexual Orientation, Latine Ethnicity, Social Determinants of Health, and Lifetime Suicide Attempts in a Sample Being Assessed for Entry to Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
- Depression in older women who died by suicide: associations with other suicide contributors and suicide methods.Journal of women & agingArticle
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Abstract
Previous research has shown that job loss, financial strain, and/or loss of housing (JFH) in midlife elevate suicide risk. In this study based on the 2017-2019 National Violent Death Reporting System, we examined other suicide precipitants and contributors of decedents whose suicide was in part precipitated by JFH and the circumstances under which they died. First, we examined all adult decedents (N = 94,454; 74,042 males [78.4%] and 20,412 females [21.6%]) and then focused on decedents age 45-64 (N = 34,208; 25,640 males [75%] and 8568 females [25.0%]). The 45-64 age group had the highest rate of JFH (22.0% for males and 15.1% for females) as a suicide precipitant. The results of generalized linear models for all adult suicide decedents of both sexes showed that the 45-64 age group (IRR = 2.02, 95% CI = 1.89-2.16), compared to 65+ age group, and relationship problems, mental disorders, and alcohol problems were associated with significantly higher risk of JFH-precipitated suicide. In male decedents age 45-64, JFH was positively associated with depressed mood (IRR = 1.95, 95% CI = 1.85-2.06), alcohol problems (IRR = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.07-1.21), and number of crises (IRR = 1.48, 95% CI = 1.43-1.53). In female decedents age 45-64, JFH was positively associated with relationship problems (IRR = 1.19, 95% CI = 1.05-1.35), legal problems (IRR = 1.27, 95% CI = 1.06-1.54), depressed mood (IRR = 1.78, 95% CI = 1.59-1.99), and number of crises (IRR = 1.58, 95% CI = 1.48-1.68). In both sexes, the risk of JFH was also positively associated with a college education. In female decedents, JFH risk was higher among divorced or never-married individuals. Coroner/medical examiner and law enforcement agency reports show that some experienced depression and started misusing alcohol and/or other substances following a job loss, but others had these problems throughout life, which caused/contributed to JFH. These findings show the significance of suicide prevention approaches at both systemic (generous unemployment insurance, housing subsidies) and individual (treatment of depression and alcohol/substance misuse problems and social support/connection) levels.
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