Albert Chenevier University Hospitals, Department of Psychiatry, Créteil cedex, France.
Psychiatry Res. 2011 Dec 30;190(2-3):271-4. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.08.007. Epub 2011 Sep 8.
It has been suggested that Black people show lower suicidality than White people. The few conflicting studies estimating lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts in Caribbean populations were mainly carried out in the UK and the USA. Our aim was to investigate the prevalence of lifetime suicide attempts among the French Caribbean general population still living in the West Indies. As part of an international epidemiological multicenter study under the authority of the World Health Organization French Collaborating Centre, we interviewed 887 individuals selected from the general population in the Caribbean island of Martinique, using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview. Among the interviewed individuals, 4.4% (N=39) reported having attempted suicide. Younger age, lifetime diagnoses of major mood disorder, panic disorder and alcohol dependence were all associated with a lifetime history of suicide attempts. Lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts among the French Caribbean general population was almost half as much as that measured in continental France.
有人认为黑人的自杀率低于白人。少数几项估计加勒比人群体一生中自杀企图发生率的相互矛盾的研究主要在英国和美国进行。我们的目的是调查生活在西印度群岛的法属加勒比普通人群中一生中自杀企图的发生率。作为世界卫生组织法国合作中心授权的一项国际流行病学多中心研究的一部分，我们使用 Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview 对来自法属加勒比马提尼克岛的普通人群中的 887 人进行了访谈。在接受访谈的人中，4.4%（N=39）报告曾试图自杀。较年轻的年龄、一生中被诊断为重度心境障碍、惊恐障碍和酒精依赖都与一生中的自杀企图史有关。法属加勒比普通人群一生中自杀企图的发生率几乎是法国大陆的一半。
