socio-demographic characteristics

• Main Authors: Yury A. Sumarokov, Tormod Brenn, Er V. Kudryavtsev
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: nenets; Nenets Autonomous Okrug
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.673.5695; http://www.circumpolarhealthjournal.net/index.php/ijch/article/viewFile/24308/pdf_1/

Background. To describe suicide rates in the indigenous and non-indigenous populations of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) in 20022012, as well as associated socio-demographic characteristics. Study design. Retrospective population-based mortality study. Methods. Data from autopsy reports were used to identify 252 cases of suicide in the NAO in 20022012. Data on socio-demographic characteristics of these cases were obtained from passports and medical records at local primary health care units, and were then linked to total population data from the Censuses in 2002 and 2010. Suicide rates for the indigenous Nenets population and the non-indigenous population were standardized to the European standard population. The rates were also estimated according to different socio-demographic characteristics and compared by calculating relative risks. Results. The crude suicide rates were 79.8 per 100,000 person-years (PYs) in the Nenets population and 49.2 per 100,000 PYs in the non-indigenous population. The corresponding standardized estimates were 72.7 per 100,000 PYs and 50.7 per 100,000 PYs. The highest suicide rates in the Nenets population were observed in the age group 2029 years (391 per 100,000 PYs), and in females aged 3039 years (191 per 100,000 PYs). Socio-demographic characteristics associated with high suicide rates in the Nenets population were age 2039 years, male, urban residence, having secondary school or higher education, being an employee or employer