Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation and related Risk Factors among Korean Adults

Eunok Park; Su Jung Choi

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Park and Choi: Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation and related Risk Factors among Korean Adults

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2013; 22(2): 88-96.

Published online: 30 June 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2013.22.2.88

Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation and related Risk Factors among Korean Adults

Eunok Park¹, Su Jung Choi²

¹College of Nursing, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea.

²Department of Nursing, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding author: Choi, Su Jung. Department of Nursing, Samsung Medical Center, 50 Ilwon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea. Tel: +82-10-9933-2851, Fax: +82-2-3410-2188, sujungchoi@hanmail.net

Received 11 March 2013 Revised 25 April 2013 Accepted 25 June 2013

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Purpose

This study was done to investigate the prevalence of suicidal ideation and associated factors in Korean adults.

Methods

From the database of the 5th Korean National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey conducted in 2010, cross-sectional data for 6,283 adults (≥20 years) were used in this analysis.

Results

One-year prevalence of suicidal ideation was 14.8%. Higher suicidal ideation was found for women, elders, adults who were divorced or separated, who were in the lower socio-economic class, were alcohol dependent, had a short sleep time, and had higher perceived stress and depression. On stepwise multivariate logistic regression analysis, depression (odds ratio 6.89 [95% confidence interval 5.18~9.16]), perceived stress(3.52 [2.66~4.65]), being woman (1.72 [1.32~2.26]), being an elder (≥65 yrs) (1.78 [1.07~2.96]), low education(3.52 [2.66~4.62]) and not married (1.48 [1.04~2.12]) were associated with suicidal ideation in Korean adults.

Conclusion

The results indicate that suicidal ideation is highly prevalent in Korean adults, especially in people with depression or high perceived stress. Identification of high-risk group and suicide prevention programs are warranted to reduce the prevalence of suicidal ideation.

Keywords: Suicidal ideation, Adult, Prevalence, Risk factor

Figures and Tables

Table 1

Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation by Socio-demographic Characteristics and Health Behaviors (N=6283)

Table 2

Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis for Relating Factors of Suicidal Ideation

ref=reference group.

Notes

This work was supported by the Jeju National University research grant of 2010.

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