Geospatial clustering of suicide mortality in Sardinia

Autor: Giovanni Mario Pes, Maria Pina Dore, Alessandra Nivoli, Roberta Meloni, Saverio Bellizzi, Liliana Lorettu, Davide Piu
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Current Psychology.
ISSN: 1936-4733
1046-1310
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-021-02448-2
Popis: The Mediterranean island of Sardinia shows the highest suicide rate in Italy among men (23.07 × 105 per year vs the average national rate of 13.80 × 105 per year). In contrast, the suicide rate among Sardinian women is one of the lowest across all the Italian regions. The aim of this epidemiological study was to investigate the distribution of suicide mortality in Sardinia in relation with environmental and social factors using geospatial analysis. Data available from the total 377 Sardinian municipalities, including suicidal mortality and several socio-economic indicators, were retrieved and analysed. Ordinary least squares regression was used to investigate the association between suicide mortality and the selected indicators. Suicides among men reached a peak in the Southern-Eastern area of the island. Overall, the multivariable analysis showed that suicidal mortality was significantly and positively related with the altitude (0.243, P = 0.001), the occupational hardship index (0.230, P = 0.016), and the social services hardship index (0.149, P
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