An analysis of age-standardized suicide rates in Muslim-majority countries in 2000-2019

Autor: Bob Lew, David Lester, Kairi Kõlves, Paul S. F. Yip, Ying-Yeh Chen, Won Sun Chen, M. Tasdik Hasan, Harold G. Koenig, Zhi Zhong Wang, Muhamad Nur Fariduddin, Emek Yuce Zeyrek-Rios, Caryn Mei Hsien Chan, Feisul Mustapha, Mimi Fitriana, Housseini Dolo, Burak M. Gönültaş, Mahboubeh Dadfar, Mojtaba Davoudi, Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek, Lai Fong Chan, Ching Sin Siau, Norhayati Ibrahim
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: BMC Public Health, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-18 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13101-3
Popis: Abstract Background This study examines the 20-year trend of suicide in 46 Muslim-majority countries throughout the world and compares their suicide rates and trends with the global average. Ecological-level associations between the proportion of the Muslim population, the age-standardized suicide rates, male-to-female suicide rate ratio, and the Human Development Index (HDI) in 2019 were examined. Methods Age-standardized suicide rates were extracted from the WHO Global Health Estimates database for the period between 2000 and 2019. The rates in each country were compared with the age-standardized global average during the past 20 years. The countries were further grouped according to their regions/sub-regions to calculate the regional and sub-regional weighted age-standardized suicide rates involving Muslim-majority countries. Correlation analyses were conducted between the proportion of Muslims, age-standardized suicide rate, male: female suicide rate ratio, and the HDI in all countries. Joinpoint regression was used to analyze the age-standardized suicide rates in 2000-2019. Results The 46 countries retained for analysis included an estimated 1.39 billion Muslims from a total worldwide Muslim population of 1.57 billion. Of these countries, eleven (23.9%) had an age-standardized suicide rate above the global average in 2019. In terms of regional/sub-regional suicide rates, Muslim-majority countries in the Sub-Saharan region recorded the highest weighted average age-standardized suicide rate of 10.02/100,000 population, and Southeastern Asia recorded the lowest rate (2.58/100,000 population). There were significant correlations between the Muslim population proportion and male-to-female rate ratios (r=-0.324, p=0.028), HDI index and age-standardized suicide rates (r=-0.506, p
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