TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - New findings on gender: the effects of employment status on suicide
JO  - International journal of women's health
A1  - Kposowa, Augustine J.
A1  - Aly Ezzat, Dina
A1  - Breault, Kevin
SP  - 569
EP  - 575
VL  - 11
IS  - 
N2  - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the impact of gender and employment on suicide with the use of expanded unemployment statuses as covariates. <br><br>METHODS: Data were obtained from release 5 of the National Longitudinal Mortality Study, a prospective study of deaths in the United States. Proportional hazards regression models were fitted to the data based on follow-up from 1990 to 2011. <br><br>RESULTS: Unemployment was significantly associated with suicide (ARR=1.628, 95% CI=1.356, 1.954), and men had suicide deaths that were five times greater than women (ARR=5.104, 95% CI=4.565, 5.707), however when the sample was stratified by sex, the impact of unemployment on suicide was much higher among women (ARR=2.988, 95% CI=2.045, 4.366) than among men (ARR=1.393, 95% CI=1.131, 1.717). <br><br>CONCLUSION: Contrary to many findings and gender assumptions, unemployed women in the U.S. have higher deaths from suicide than unemployed men. <br><br>DISCUSSION focused on explanations for gender disparities in unemployment.<br><br>© 2019 Kposowa et al.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1179-1411
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJWH.S216504
ID  - ref1
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