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Soo Rim Kim1, Sujin Lee2, Jae Ho Chung3
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, International St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic Kwandong University College of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Early menarche can be the socio-psychological problems. We studied the association between early menarche and suicidal risk behaviors among South Korean girl adolescents using national-wide data.Web-based self-report data from 2006 to 2015 the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey data were used in this study. Menarche status was divided into an "early menarche" group (at <12 years of age) versus "not early" menarche group (at ≥12 years of age).Participants with adolescent girls with early menarche group showed a higher prevalence of substance use, higher levels of stress, poorer self-rated health status, unhappier perceiveness, more frequent depressed mood, inter-sexual kissing or petting, inter-sexual intercourse, homosexual kissing or petting, being the victim or the assailant of sexual assaults, sexual transmitted diseases experience, pregnancy, and abortion experience than the not early menarche group. Adolescent girls with early menarche who had suicidal ideation (25.4% vs 22.2%, P < .001), suicidal plans (4.1% vs 2.6%, P < .001), and suicidal attempts (6.8% vs 5.2%, P < .001) were higher than that in the adolescent girls with not early menarche. A multivariate analysis after adjusting revealed that the odds ratios for suicidal ideation, plans, and attempts were 1.07 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.05-1.10), 1.35 (95% CI: 1.28-1.41), and 1.13 (95% CI: 1.09-1.18), respectively.Adolescent girl with early menarche was associated with suicidal behaviors.
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