Suicide attempts and death among heroin-involved women seeking methadone treatment in Taiwan.

Autor: Chen WT; Center for Neuropsychiatric Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan., Wang SC; Center for Neuropsychiatric Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan., Wang IA; Center for Neuropsychiatric Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan., Tsay JH; Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan., Chen CY; Center for Neuropsychiatric Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan; Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: chuanychen@ym.edu.tw.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Drug and alcohol dependence [Drug Alcohol Depend] 2020 Dec 01; Vol. 217, pp. 108277. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Sep 13.
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108277
Abstrakt: Background: The present study aims to profile the hazard fluctuation of suicide attempts and deaths among heroin-involved women seeking methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and to investigate sociodemographic and clinical factors predicting the time to have suicidal behaviors.
Methods: We identified a retrospective cohort comprising 2780 women receiving methadone treatment in the period of 2012-2016. Healthcare records were obtained from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database, and suicide deaths were ascertained from the national death register. Competing risk survival analyses were used to estimate the risk of suicide attempts and deaths within one year and three years of MMT enrollment.
Results: A total of 1.2 % of MMT-treated women ever visited hospital for suicide attempt, and 0.5 % died by confirmed suicide. The risk of treated suicide attempt reached its peak at the end of the 8th month after methadone initiation, whereas the risk of confirmed suicide death was relatively stable during the first one and a half years. A history of treated depressive disorders appears to be the strongest risk predictor for treated suicide attempts (Adjusted Hazard Ratio [aHR] = 3.45; 95 % CI = 1.66-7.19) and confirmed suicide death (aHR = 3.47; 95 % CI = 1.20-10.0). Retaining in methadone treatment may significantly lower the hazard of probable suicide death by 52 %.
Conclusions: Women with heroin use disorders should receive careful attention for suicide risk at intake assessment and over the course of treatment and recovery. Preventive strategies should target unmet clinical and social needs and evaluate gender-specific barriers for treatment engagement.
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