DiBenedetti Cassie, Zimmerman Gregory M, Fridel Emma E
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, 204 Churchill Hall 360 Huntington Avenue, 02115, Boston, MA, USA.
College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, 112 S. Copeland Street, Tallahassee, FL, 32304, USA.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2024 Jun 3. doi: 10.1007/s40615-024-02039-4.
Research highlights racial and ethnic disparities in suicide, but Asian American suicide receives very little attention in the literature. This is the first comprehensive, large-scale, nationally representative study of completed suicide among Asian Americans in the United States. Descriptive and multilevel regression techniques compared the risk factors for completed suicide across 227,786 Asian American, White, African American, Hispanic, and American Indian suicide decedents from 2003 to 2019. Results indicated that Asian American suicide decedents were significantly less likely than their counterparts to have several risk factors for suicide. Asian Americans were less likely to be male, uneducated, and unmarried. Asian Americans were less likely to use alcohol and drugs, to have mental health problems, and to die by firearm, relative to other suicide methods. Asian Americans were less likely to have a history of prior suicide attempts, to have intimate partner problems, and to have criminal legal problems. Conversely, Asian Americans were more likely to reside in places with higher levels of concentrated disadvantage, residential instability, racial and ethnic heterogeneity, and population density. The results underscore the need for race-specific suicide prevention strategies that, for Asian Americans in particular, take into account cultural values and barriers to help-seeking behavior.
研究突出了自杀方面的种族和族裔差异，但日裔美国人的自杀在文献中很少受到关注。这是美国首次针对日裔美国人自杀身亡情况进行的全面、大规模、具有全国代表性的研究。描述性和多层次回归技术比较了2003年至2019年间227,786名日裔美国人、白人、非裔美国人、西班牙裔和美国印第安人自杀死亡者的自杀风险因素。结果表明，日裔美国人自杀死亡者出现多种自杀风险因素的可能性明显低于其他群体。日裔美国人男性、未受过教育和未婚的可能性较小。与其他自杀方式相比，日裔美国人使用酒精和毒品、有心理健康问题以及死于枪支的可能性较小。日裔美国人有过自杀未遂史、有亲密伴侣问题以及有刑事法律问题的可能性较小。相反，日裔美国人更有可能居住在劣势集中程度较高、居住不稳定、种族和族裔异质性以及人口密度较高的地方。研究结果强调了制定针对特定种族的自杀预防策略的必要性，特别是对于日裔美国人，这些策略要考虑到文化价值观以及寻求帮助行为的障碍。
