Sociodemographic Antecedent Validators of Suicidal Behavior: A Review of Recent Literature.
Suicidal behavior and its prevention constitute a major public health issue. Etiology of suicidal behavior is multifactorial. Whereas current research is mostly focused on clinical and biological risk factors, the sociodemographic risk factors for suicidal behavior, first highlighted by Durkheim, have received less attention. Besides the well-known impact of age and gender, sociodemographic variables such as marital and parental status, education, occupation, income, employment status, religion, migration or minority status, and sexual orientation are repeatedly reported to play an important role in suicidal behavior. This narrative review aimed to summarize recent research on sociodemographic risk factors for suicidal behavior and to elicit possible implications for suicide prevention.
Department of Emergency Psychiatry, CHRU Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
Ismael
I
Conejero
Department of Psychiatry, CHU Nimes, Nimes, France. jorgecastroman@gmail.com.|Inserm U1061, Hôpital La Colombiere, Pavillon 42, 39 Av Charles Flauhault, BP: 34493, 34093, Montpellier, France. jorgecastroman@gmail.com.|University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier, 34000, France. jorgecastroman@gmail.com.
Jorge
J
Lopez-Castroman
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
Lucas
L
Giner
IIS-Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Department of Psychiatry, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain.|Department of Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Enrique
E
Baca-Garcia
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
Economy; Marital status; Parenthood; Profession; Risk factor; Sexuality; Suicide attempts