The role of ageing in the wish to be dead: disentangling age, period and cohort effects in suicide ideation in European population.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To investigate potential age, period and birth cohort effects in the prevalence of suicide ideation in European ageing population.

Methods

A total of 50 782 community-dwelling adults (aged + 50) from 20 different European countries were collected in the Survey Health Ageing and Retirement study. A multilevel logistic regression model of repeated measures was modelled to assess the effects of age and other variables, including the variability of observations over three levels: birth cohort groups, time period assessment and individual differences.

Results

The larger effect of variability was attributed to individual-level factors (57.8%). Youngest-old people (65-79 years) showed lower suicide ideation than middle-aged people (50-64 years). No significative differe

SUBMITTER: Cabello M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8061246 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature