环境颗粒物对自杀死亡的短期影响
Tae-Hwa Go1, Min-Hyuk Kim2, Yoon-Young Choi3
1Department of Biostatistics, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea.
Environmental health : a global access science source
|January 3, 2024
概括
短期暴露于颗粒物 (PM) 与自杀死亡的增加有关,特别是在弱势群体中. 减少PM可能有助于预防自杀并改善心理健康.
科学领域:
- 环境健康 环境健康
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 空气污染,特别是颗粒物 (PM),与呼吸道和神经系统疾病有关.
- 关于PM暴露和自杀风险的先前研究显示了不一致的结果.
- 这项研究调查了PM对自杀死亡的短期影响,重点关注弱势群体.
研究的目的:
- 检查短期颗粒物 (PM) 暴露与自杀死亡之间的关系.
- 研究PM对特定子组 (性别,年龄,自杀方法,精神/身体状况) 自杀风险的影响.
主要方法:
- 对韩国28,670起自杀死亡 (2013-2017) 的时间序列分析.
- 使用了通用增值模型与分布式滞后非线性模型.
- 分析汇总了城市特定的结果,以确定总体的PM影响 (滞后0-7天).
主要成果:
- 证实了PM10暴露与自杀死亡之间的联系.
- 增加的PM10暴露与患有精神疾病 (5.92%) 和使用非暴力方法 (11.47%) 的个体的自杀风险更高有关.
- 自杀风险随着PM10度的增加而增加,特别是在特定群体中高达100-120μg/m3.
结论:
- 短期暴露于颗粒物 (PM) 与自杀风险增加有关.
- 研究结果支持减少PM的公共健康益处,以防止自杀.
- 减少空气污染可以有助于改善心理健康结果.
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