High Altitude Remains Associated with Elevated Suicide Rates after Adjusting for Socioeconomic Status: A Study from South Korea
- Authors
- Kim, Jaelim; Choi, Nari; Lee, Yu-Jin; An, Hyonggin; Kim, Namkug; Yoon, Ho-Kyoung; Lee, Heon-Jeong
- Issue Date
- 10월-2014
- Publisher
- KOREAN NEUROPSYCHIATRIC ASSOC
- Keywords
- Suicide rate; Altitude; Socioeconomic status; South Korea
- Citation
- PSYCHIATRY INVESTIGATION, v.11, no.4, pp.492 - 494
- Indexed
- SCIE
SSCI
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- PSYCHIATRY INVESTIGATION
- Volume
- 11
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 492
- End Page
- 494
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/97289
- DOI
- 10.4306/pi.2014.11.4.492
- ISSN
- 1738-3684
- Abstract
- There have been several studies supporting a possible relationship between high suicide rate and high altitude. However socioeconomic status may confound this association because low socioeconomic status, which is known to be related to a high suicide rate, is also associated with living at high altitude. This study aims to explore whether the relationship between high altitude and high suicide rate remains after adjusting for socioeconomic status in South Korea. We collected demographic data of completed suicides, the mean altitude of the district where each suicide took place, and the mean income of each district. We analyzed the data using regression analysis before and after adjustment for mean income. We found that there is a positive correlation between altitude and suicide rate, even after adjustment for mean income. Thus, altitude appears to be an independent risk factor for suicide.
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