TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Methods of suicide among cancer patients: a nationwide population-based study
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Chung, Kuo-Hsuan
A1  - Lin, Herng-Ching
SP  - 107
EP  - 114
VL  - 40
IS  - 2
N2  - A 3-year nationwide population-based data set was used to explore methods of suicide (violent vs. nonviolent) and possible contributing factors among cancer patients in Taiwan. A total of 1,065 cancer inpatients who committed suicide were included as our study sample. The regression shows that those who had genitourinary cancer were 0.55 times (p = 0.047) less likely to use violent methods to commit suicide than those who had respiratory cancer. Among those who committed suicide out of town, the odds of using violent methods were 1.39 (p = 0.015) of their counterparts who had committed suicide in their hometowns. Those who had income between NT$15,841~NT$25,000 were 0.70 (p = 0.042) times less likely to use violent methods to commit suicide than those who had no income.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2010.40.2.107
ID  - ref1
ER  -