title: Suicide mortality trends in young people aged 15 to 19 years in Lithuania.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper considers the suicide mortality trends from 1990-2009 in young people aged 15 to 19 years in Lithuania.
  
  
  METHODS
  Suicide and injury mortality data, plus mortality data from all causes, were used to compare the trend lines.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Suicide mortality rate in young people aged 15-19 years and in all population showed a rising trend from 1990, and then a decreasing trend from 2002 year. This trend was significant exclusively in boys. When comparing suicide deaths as a percentage of injury deaths and of all deaths in the age group 15-19 years, rising trends for boys were evident, whilst in girls, there was no evidence of change.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In Lithuania, from early 1990s, the frequency of suicide increased amongst adults and young people aged 15-19 years. After 2002, a decrease in deaths by suicide was observed both for the whole population and for young people aged 15-19 years. The rise and fall was obvious for boys. The reasons for different trends may have been influenced by the political and socioeconomic instability in the 1990-2002 period, and the socioeconomic stability, together with active preventive measures, from 2002. Although the consumption of modern Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) increased during the same time, suicide mortality was again high during the economic crisis in 2008-2009.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, Klaipeda University, Lithuania. birutedoctor@hotmail.com
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Strukcinskiene
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Andersson
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Janson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002423:Cause of Death / Q000639:trends*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008097:Lithuania / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D011057:Politics; D012044:Regression Analysis; D017367:Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D055815:Young Adult; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
chemical_list: D017367:Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors