Shah Ajit
Ethnicity, and Mental Health, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom and Consultant Psychiatrist, West London Mental Health NHS Trust in London, UK.
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2008 Dec;38(6):714-9. doi: 10.1521/suli.2008.38.6.714.
There is mixed evidence of a relationship between suicide rates in the general population and urbanization, and a paucity of studies examining this relationship in the elderly. A cross-national study with curve estimation regression model analysis, was undertaken to examine the a priori hypothesis that the relationship between elderly suicide rates and urbanization would be curvilinear and follow an inverted U-shaped curve. There was a curvilinear relationship between male suicide rates in both the elderly age-bands and the percentage of the population living in urban areas, but this was not observed in females. A three-stage sequential model was developed to explain the observed relationship between suicide rates in elderly males and urbanization. The relationship between suicide rates in elderly females and urbanization.
关于普通人群自杀率与城市化之间的关系，证据不一，且针对老年人研究这种关系的研究较少。开展了一项采用曲线估计回归模型分析的跨国研究，以检验预先设定的假设，即老年人自杀率与城市化之间的关系将呈曲线关系，并呈倒U形曲线。在两个老年年龄段的男性自杀率与城市居住人口百分比之间存在曲线关系，但在女性中未观察到这种关系。开发了一个三阶段序列模型来解释老年男性自杀率与城市化之间观察到的关系。老年女性自杀率与城市化之间的关系。
