Kuroki Yusuke
1 Office of Institutional Research, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Omega (Westport). 2018 Sep;77(4):404-411. doi: 10.1177/0030222816678425. Epub 2016 Nov 26.
This brief report used the mortality data to separately examine suicide rates of the six largest Asian American groups: Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. In 2000, Japanese American men (13.8 per 100,000) showed significantly higher suicide rate than Chinese, Indian, and Vietnamese American men (7.3, 4.0, and 6.1 per 100,000), whereas Chinese, Korean, and Japanese women (3.7, 3.9, and 4.3 per 100,000) showed higher suicide rates than Indian women (1.2 per 100,000). In 2010, Korean and Japanese American men (19.9 and 15.7 per 100,000) showed higher suicide rates than men of other Asian groups. Korean and Japanese American women (8.1 and 5.0 per 100,000) showed higher suicide rates than Indian and Filipino American women (1.5 and 1.8 per 100,000). The findings challenge the notion that Asian Americans are at low risk for suicide and underscore the importance of examining ethnic variation in suicide behaviors among Asian Americans.
本简要报告利用死亡率数据，分别研究了六个最大的亚裔美国人群体的自杀率：华裔、菲律宾裔、印度裔、日裔、韩裔和越南裔。2000年，日裔美国男性（每10万人中有13.8人自杀）的自杀率显著高于华裔、印度裔和越南裔美国男性（每10万人中分别为7.3人、4.0人和6.1人），而华裔、韩裔和日裔美国女性（每10万人中分别为3.7人、3.9人和4.3人）的自杀率高于印度裔美国女性（每10万人中为1.2人）。2010年，韩裔和日裔美国男性（每10万人中分别为19.9人和15.7人）的自杀率高于其他亚裔群体的男性。韩裔和日裔美国女性（每10万人中分别为8.1人和5.0人）的自杀率高于印度裔和菲律宾裔美国女性（每10万人中分别为1.5人和1.8人）。这些研究结果挑战了亚裔美国人自杀风险低的观念，并强调了研究亚裔美国人自杀行为中的种族差异的重要性。
