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Suicidality and the economic crisis in Greece.

Titulo Suicidality and the economic crisis in Greece.
Autoría Economou M, Madianos M, Peppou LE, Theleritis C, Stefanis CN.
Fuente Lancet. 2012 Jul 28;380(9839):337; author reply 337-8. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61244-6.
Resumen

Konstantinos Fountoulakis and colleagues (March 17, p 1001)1 state that there is no evidence of a causal link between the economic crisis and suicide in Greece. Although only a cohort study would enable causal inferences, converging evidence from different sources points towards a similar direction: efforts should be focused on prevention of suicides.2, 3 In a previous Correspondence letter2 we noted a 36% increase, albeit non-significant, in the proportion of people reporting attempted suicide between 2009 and 2011. Yet as Fountoulakis and colleagues acknowledge, in 2009 “Greece had begun to see indices of extreme financial crisis”. A similar survey before the crisis4 showed that the proportion of attempted suicides in 2008 was 0·6%, which is significantly lower than for 2009 (1·1%) and 2011 (1·5%). We agree that a reported suicide attempt is not equivalent to suicide; nonetheless, this finding indicates a substantial change, which can be accounted for by the onset of the crisis.

URL www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22841332
Tipo de documento Artículo cientifico
Impacto en el sistema sanitario --
Impacto en la salud Salud mental