Research on Youth Suicide and Sexual Orientation is Impacted by High Rates of Missingness in National Surveillance Systems.

IF 2.5 3区医学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Archives of Suicide Research Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-22 DOI:10.1080/13811118.2023.2227233

Peter L Phalen, Aaron J Kivisto

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Abstract

Objective: The sexual orientation of youth who die by suicide in the United States is usually unknown. This study assessed how observed patterns of unknown sexual orientation are likely to affect research findings.

Methods: We analyzed the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) Restricted Access Dataset to assess whether sexual orientation among youth suicide decedents is disproportionately known for different demographics. We then assessed the degree to which estimated sexual minority rates would be affected if researchers were to assume either (a) that sexual orientation data is missing completely at random, or (b) that orientation information is missing at random after accounting for observed demographic patterns.

Results: <10% of the sample had known sexual orientation. Sexual orientation was more frequently known for females, white people, and older people, and missingness varied by geography. The choice between modeling the data as missing completely at random versus at random conditional upon demographics had a > 2-fold impact on estimated sexual minority rates among youth suicide decedents.

Conclusion: Research on sexual orientation and youth suicide is strongly impacted by how researchers account (or do not account) for missingness.

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国家监测系统的高遗漏率影响了有关青少年自杀和性取向的研究。

目的：美国自杀身亡青少年的性取向通常不明。本研究评估了所观察到的性取向不明的模式可能对研究结果产生的影响：我们分析了全国暴力死亡报告系统（NVDRS）的限制访问数据集，以评估不同人口统计中青年自杀死者的性取向是否过多。然后，我们评估了如果研究人员假设（a）性取向数据完全随机缺失，或（b）在考虑了观察到的人口统计学模式后，性取向信息随机缺失，那么估计的性少数群体比率将受到多大影响：结论：研究人员如何考虑（或不考虑）遗漏问题，对性取向和青少年自杀的研究影响很大。

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期刊介绍： Archives of Suicide Research, the official journal of the International Academy of Suicide Research (IASR), is the international journal in the field of suicidology. The journal features original, refereed contributions on the study of suicide, suicidal behavior, its causes and effects, and techniques for prevention. The journal incorporates research-based and theoretical articles contributed by a diverse range of authors interested in investigating the biological, pharmacological, psychiatric, psychological, and sociological aspects of suicide.