Associations between gun violence exposure and suicide mortality rates in US counties.

IF 3.6 2区医学 Q1 PSYCHIATRY

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology Pub Date : 2024-09-28 DOI:10.1007/s00127-024-02771-6

Konstantinos Christopoulos

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Abstract

Purpose: Gun violence traumatizes communities and places a heavy burden on the mental health of those exposed. This ecological study examines the association between gun violence exposure and suicide mortality rates in US counties for the period 1999-2020 at various urbanicity levels.

Methods: A Bayesian hierarchical Gamma-Poisson model with state random effects was employed to model the age-adjusted suicide mortality rates which adjusted for sex ratio, urbanicity, social vulnerability, gun ownership, culture of honor, and exposure spillovers from neighbouring counties.

Results: Results indicate a small significant positive association between gun violence and suicide mortality rates. Urbanicity levels do not appear to modify this association, although the association may be slightly smaller for large urban metros.

Conclusions: Gun violence exposure may be positively associated with suicide mortality in US counties.

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美国各县枪支暴力暴露与自杀死亡率之间的关联。

目的：枪支暴力会给社区造成创伤，并给受暴力侵害者的心理健康带来沉重负担。这项生态研究探讨了 1999-2020 年间美国各县不同城市化水平下枪支暴力暴露与自杀死亡率之间的关系：方法：采用带有州随机效应的贝叶斯分层伽马-泊松模型，对年龄调整后的自杀死亡率进行建模，并对性别比、城市化程度、社会脆弱性、枪支拥有率、荣誉文化以及邻县的暴露溢出效应进行调整：结果表明，枪支暴力与自杀死亡率之间存在微小的正相关关系。城市化水平似乎并不改变这种关联，尽管大城市的关联可能略小：结论：在美国各县，枪支暴力暴露可能与自杀死亡率呈正相关。

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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 医学-精神病学

CiteScore

8.50

自引率

2.30%

发文量

184

审稿时长

3-6 weeks

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