Relation between occupation, gender dominance in the occupation and workplace and suicide in Sweden: a longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the association between occupations and suicide, and to explore the effect of gender dominance in the occupation and in the workplace on the risk of suicide.

Design

Register-based cohort study.

Participants

3 318 050 workers in Sweden in 2005 and followed up until 2010. Exclusion criteria for the study were: missing information in the occupational codes, yearly income of <100 Swedish krona, missing information of the employer, death or migration, and registered occupational code reported from more than 5 years ago.

Outcome

Suicides occurring during 2006-2010 identified in the cause of death register by the International Classification of Diagnoses-10 codes X60-84 and Y10-34.

Results

Occupations with increased suicide were life scie

SUBMITTER: Matilla Santander N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9226951 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature