TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - The role of unemployment in parasuicide
JO  - Psychological medicine
A1  - Jones, Sandra C.
A1  - Forster, D. P.
A1  - Hassanyeh, F.
SP  - 169
EP  - 176
VL  - 21
IS  - 1
N2  - Sixty-four in-patient cases of deliberate non-fatal self-poisoning were compared for psychosocial problems in a case-control study with a similar number of individually matched community controls. A strongly significant association was found between unemployment and self-poisoning. Further analysis revealed no firm evidence to support the hypotheses that unemployment was causally related to self-poisoning in an indirect manner or that it increased the vulnerability of individuals who self-poison to other stressful life events and difficulties. It is concluded that a possible explanation is that some third factor independently increases the risk of both unemployment and self-poisoning, giving rise to a non-causal relationship between these last two variables.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0033-2917
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -