Department of Mental Health Policy and Evaluation, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan; Department of Public Mental Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Mental Health Policy and Evaluation, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Psychiatry Res. 2017 Sep;255:321-327. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.06.007. Epub 2017 Jun 6.
Religiosity has been shown to be inversely associated with suicidal ideation, but few studies have examined associations by age group. This study aimed to examine the association between religiosity with suicidal ideation by age group. This study used a large nationally representative sample of 260,816 study participants from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Religiosity was defined as self-reported importance of religious beliefs and frequency of religious service attendance. The association between religiosity and suicidal ideation was assessed by multivariable logistic regression analysis stratified by age group (18-25, 26-34, 35-49, 50-64, 65 or older). The importance of religious beliefs was inversely associated with suicidal ideation in all age groups. The association was the strongest in people aged 65 or older, followed by people aged 18-25. Religious service attendance was also inversely associated with suicidal ideation in people aged 65 or more when attendance was more than 25 times per year. These findings may be helpful to understand age in relation to the relationship between religiosity and suicidal ideation. Particular attention to religiosity among older adults as a protective factor for suicidal ideation may be helpful in clinical settings.
宗教信仰与自杀意念呈负相关，但很少有研究按年龄组来检验这种关联。本研究旨在按年龄组检验宗教信仰与自杀意念之间的关联。本研究使用了来自全国毒品使用与健康调查的 260816 名研究参与者的大型全国代表性样本。宗教信仰的定义是自我报告的宗教信仰的重要性和宗教服务出席的频率。通过多变量逻辑回归分析，按年龄组（18-25 岁、26-34 岁、35-49 岁、50-64 岁、65 岁或以上）对宗教信仰和自杀意念之间的关联进行评估。宗教信仰的重要性与所有年龄组的自杀意念呈负相关。这种关联在 65 岁或以上的人群中最强，其次是 18-25 岁的人群。当每年参加宗教服务超过 25 次时，宗教服务的出席也与 65 岁及以上人群的自杀意念呈负相关。这些发现可能有助于理解与宗教信仰和自杀意念之间的关系有关的年龄因素。在临床环境中，特别关注老年人的宗教信仰作为自杀意念的保护因素可能会有所帮助。
