title: Evictions and suicide: a follow-up study of almost 22,000 Swedish households in the wake of the global financial crisis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Millions of families across the world are evicted every year. However, very little is known about the impact that eviction has on their lives. This lack of knowledge is also starting to be noticed within the suicidological literature, and prominent scholars are arguing that there is an urgent need to explore the extent to which suicides may be considered a plausible consequence of being faced with eviction.
  
  
  METHODS
  The present study's sample consists of all persons served with an application for execution of an eviction order during 2009-2012. This group is compared to a random 10% sample of the general Swedish population, ages 16 years and over. The analysis is based on penalised maximum likelihood logistic regressions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Those who had lost their legal right to their dwellings and for whom the landlord had applied for the eviction to be executed were approximately four times more likely to commit suicide than those who had not been exposed to this experience (OR=4.42), controlling for several demographic, socioeconomic and mental health conditions prior to the date of the judicial decision.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Home evictions have a significant and detrimental impact on individuals' risk of committing suicide, even when several other well-known suicidogenic risk factors are controlled for. Our results reinforce the importance of ongoing attempts to remove the issue of evictions from its status as a hidden and neglected social problem.
authors.affiliation: Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Yerko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rojas
authors.affiliation: Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Sten-Åke
authors.initials: SÅ
authors.lastname: Stenberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D057172:Economic Recession / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology; D006798:Housing / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D012940:Social Problems; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: SOCIAL FACTORS IN; SOCIO-ECONOMIC; SUICIDE