Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Suicide Mortality in South Korea, 1992⁻2015.

ABSTRACT: Although the effects of age, period, and cohort (APC) on suicide are important, previous work in this area may have been invalid because of an identification problem. We analyzed these effects under three different scenarios to identify vulnerable groups and thus overcame the identification problem. We extracted the annual numbers of suicides from the National Death Register of Korea (1992⁻2015) and estimated the APC effects. The annual average suicide rates in 1992⁻2015 were 31.5 and 14.7 per 100,000 males and females, respectively. The APC effects on suicide were similar in both sexes. The age effect was clearly higher in older subjects, in contrast to the minimal changes apparent during earlier adulthood. The birth cohort effect showed an inverted U shape; a higher cohort effect was evi

SUBMITTER: Park S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6121370 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature