一项关于韩国青少年自杀的时空空间聚类的探索性研究
Won-Seok Choi1, Beop-Rae Roh2, Duk-In Jon3
1Department of Psychiatry, Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health
|May 10, 2024
概括
青少年自杀可以在空间和时间上聚集在一起. 较低的经济地位与集群青少年自杀有关,这表明自杀事件后需要监测和干预.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 青少年心理学 青少年心理学
背景情况:
- 与其他年龄组相比,青少年自杀显示出更高的聚类倾向.
- 时空自杀集群的精确定义和贡献因素仍未得到充分探索.
- 这项研究解决了在韩国识别和分析青少年自杀集群的需要.
研究的目的:
- 为了确定韩国青少年自杀的时空集群.
- 调查与集群与非集群青少年自杀相关的社会人口统计学和个人因素.
- 建立一个理解和潜在地减轻自杀传染的框架.
主要方法:
- 利用了2016-2020年在韩国的学生自杀报告,包括精确的位置数据.
- 通过强项和困难问卷 (SDQ) 收集社会人口统计数据和个人特征.
- 应用基于密度的应用与噪音的空间聚类 (DBSCAN) 来识别时空聚类.
主要成果:
- 在使用DBSCAN的652起青少年自杀案中确定了23个集群.
- 发现63 (9.7%) 个青少年自杀事件是空间时间的集群,集群持续时间从7天到59天.
- 与非集群自杀组相比,集群自杀组的经济地位明显较低.
结论:
- 通过一种新的统计方法,成功地定义了青少年的时空自杀集群.
- 调查结果表明,青少年自杀后的关键2个月期需要加强监测和干预.
- 建议对更大的青少年样本进行进一步的国际研究,以验证DBSCAN在自杀集群分析中的实用性.
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