Proportion of suicides in Denmark attributable to bereavement by the suicide of a first-degree relative or partner: Nested case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To provide the first estimates of the risk of suicide after bereavement by the suicide of any first-degree relative and the proportion of suicides in Denmark attributable to suicide bereavement.

Methods

We conducted a nationwide nested case-control study defining cases as all Danish-born individuals who died by suicide in Denmark between 01 January 1980 and 31 December 2016 (n = 32,248), age-matched to four living controls. Using three exposure categories (bereavement by the suicide of a relative [parent, offspring, sibling, and spouse/cohabitee]; non-suicide bereavement; no bereavement) and conditional logistic regression adjusted for pre-specified covariates we estimated the odds of exposure to suicide bereavement in cases versus controls. We tested whether assoc

SUBMITTER: Pitman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9826113 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature