TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - The trend in suicide methods in South Korea in 1997-2015
JO  - Death studies
A1  - Sohn, Kitae
SP  - 303
EP  - 310
VL  - 41
IS  - 5
N2  - South Korea exhibited the highest crude suicide rate in the world. To better understand this phenomenon, we analyzed all suicides in South Korea from 1997 to 2015 and charted the trend in suicide methods by sex. Over time, both sexes changed from hanging for suicide to drug/pesticide poisoning. Gassing was hardly used in the beginning, but its recent gain in use is noteworthy. Including undetermined deaths did not change the main results. We regressed hanging on demographics and found that hanging was particularly chosen by ever-married men of prime working age with a respectable level of education.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0748-1187
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2016.1271837
ID  - ref1
ER  -