TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Is the association between suicide and unemployment common or different among the post-Soviet countries?
JO  - International journal of environmental research and public health
A1  - Seksenbayev, Nursultan
A1  - Inoue, Ken
A1  - Toleuov, Elaman
A1  - Akkuzinova, Kamila
A1  - Karimova, Zhanna
A1  - Moldagaliyev, Timur
A1  - Ospanova, Nargul
A1  - Chaizhunusova, Nailya
A1  - Dyussupov, Altay
SP  - e7226
EP  - e7226
VL  - 19
IS  - 12
N2  - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in 1991 and separated into the 15 post-Soviet countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The post-Soviet countries have faced many economic problems, including unemployment. The association between suicide and unemployment in post-Soviet countries has not been well studied. Here, we researched the annual suicide rate and the unemployment rate during the 28-year period from 1992 to 2019 in the 15 post-Soviet countries. We calculated the correlation coefficients between the suicide rate and the unemployment rate in each of the countries during this period, and we determined the association between the suicide rate and unemployment rate. Our major findings were that (1) the suicide rates among both males and females were significantly associated with the unemployment rate in nearly half of the 15 countries, and (2) for nearly 70% of the males in the entire set of 15 countries, there was an association between the suicide rate and the unemployment rate. Suicide-prevention researchers and organizations should be aware of our findings, and specific suicide-prevention measures based on these results are desirable.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1661-7827
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127226
ID  - ref1
ER  -