title: Methods of suicide among cancer patients: a nationwide population-based study.
abstract: A 3-year nationwide population-based data set was used to explore methods of suicide (violent vs. nonviolent) and possible contributing factors among cancer patients in Taiwan. A total of 1,065 cancer inpatients who committed suicide were included as our study sample. The regression shows that those who had genitourinary cancer were 0.55 times (p = 0.047) less likely to use violent methods to commit suicide than those who had respiratory cancer. Among those who committed suicide out of town, the odds of using violent methods were 1.39 (p = 0.015) of their counterparts who had committed suicide in their hometowns. Those who had income between NT$15,841~NT$25,000 were 0.70 (p = 0.042) times less likely to use violent methods to commit suicide than those who had no income.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Kuo-Hsuan
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Herng-Ching
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012142:Respiratory Tract Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013405:Suicide; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population; D014565:Urogenital Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology