Long-term unemployment and suicide: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

There have been a number of reviews on the association+ between unemployment and suicide, but none have investigated how this relationship is influenced by duration of unemployment.

Method

A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted of those studies that assessed duration of unemployment as a risk factor for suicide. Studies considered as eligible for inclusion were population-based cohort or case-control designs; population-based ecological designs, or hospital based clinical cohort or case-control designs published in the year 1980 or later.

Results

The review identified 16 eligible studies, out of a possible 10,358 articles resulting from a search of four databases: PubMed, Web of Knowledge, Scopus and Proquest. While all 16 studies measured unemplo

SUBMITTER: Milner A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3547020 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature