Merrill J, Owens J
West Midlands Poisons Unit, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1988 Jan;77(1):77-80. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1988.tb05081.x.
Rates of deliberate self-poisoning in four immigrant groups, Asian, West Indian, Irish and Scottish were compared with those of English-born residents in an inner-city area of Birmingham. For both Asian and West Indian groups males and older females were underrepresented but young females had rates similar to the English group. Irish females and Scottish of both sexes were overrepresented. The rates of self-poisoning for all four immigrant groups considerably exceeded those of their country of origin, the difference being most marked among young Asian females. Explanations for these findings are examined.
对亚洲、西印度、爱尔兰和苏格兰这四个移民群体的蓄意自我中毒发生率与伯明翰市中心区英格兰出生居民的发生率进行了比较。对于亚洲和西印度群体而言，男性和年长女性所占比例较低，但年轻女性的发生率与英格兰群体相似。爱尔兰女性以及苏格兰男性和女性所占比例较高。所有四个移民群体的自我中毒发生率大大超过其原籍国，这种差异在年轻亚洲女性中最为明显。文中对这些研究结果的解释进行了探讨。
