Kreitman N
MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, Edinburgh.
Psychol Med. 1988 Feb;18(1):121-8. doi: 10.1017/s0033291700001951.
A new data set concerning suicide in relation to marital status for Scotland, 1973-83, is presented. The effects of age-standardization on marital status rates and of marital status standardization on age-specific rates are both elucidated. The difficulties of drawing conclusions from marital status rates for suicide are outlined. Nevertheless, the data suggest that the importance of the widowed state has been underestimated and that it appears that the relative risk for suicide associated with divorce has probably been decreasing among Scottish men over the study period.
本文呈现了一组关于1973 - 1983年苏格兰自杀与婚姻状况关系的新数据集。阐述了年龄标准化对婚姻状况比率的影响以及婚姻状况标准化对特定年龄比率的影响。概述了从自杀的婚姻状况比率得出结论的困难。尽管如此，数据表明丧偶状态的重要性被低估了，而且在研究期间，苏格兰男性中与离婚相关的自杀相对风险可能一直在下降。
