The role of depression and use of alcohol and other drugs after partner suicide in the association between suicide bereavement and suicide: cohort study in the Danish population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although suicide bereavement is associated with suicide and self-harm, evidence regarding mechanisms is lacking. We investigated whether depression and substance use (alcohol and/or other drugs) explain the association between partner suicide bereavement and suicide.

Methods

Linkage of nationwide, longitudinal data from Denmark for the period 1980-2016 facilitated a comparison of 22 668 individuals exposed to bereavement by a partner's suicide with 913 402 individuals bereaved by a partner's death due to other causes. Using causal mediation models, we estimated the degree to which depression and substance use (considered separately) mediated the association between suicide bereavement and suicide.

Results

Suicide-bereaved partners were found to have a highe

SUBMITTER: Pitman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11413345 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature