• 한국노년학
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.1427-1444
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• 2009

본 연구의 목적은 지역사회 거주 노인들의 자살에 대한 생각, 계획, 시도 경험 정도가 어떠한지 살펴보고, 자살 완료와 가장 가까운 개념이라 할 수 있는 자살 시도에 영향을 미치는 요인을 살펴보는 것이다. 연구목적을 달성하기 위해 전라북도에 거주하고 있는 65세 이상 재가 노인 1,110명을 대상으로 구조화된 설문지를 이용, 면접법에 의해 자료를 수집하였다. 조사 대상 노인 중 20.2%가 자살을 생각해 보았다고 응답했고, 5.7%가 자살을 계획한 적이 있다고 하였고, 3.6%는 자살을 시도한 적이 있다고 하였다. 자살 시도 영향 요인을 살펴보기 위해 로지스틱 회귀분석을 실시한 결과 성별, 동거형태, 일역할 상실, 정서적 학대와 방임 피해 정도가 자살 시도와 관련이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구 결과를 기초로 정책적 실천적 함의를 제안하였다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.112-119
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• 2020

Suicide has been a long-standing problem for global public health, along with almost 800,000 deaths from suicide worldwide in 2016, accounting for 1.4% of all deaths. South Korea was ranked first in suicide mortality in 2018 among countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. This study aimed to suggest up-to-date information about suicide-related indicators such as the rate of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, and suicide death, and its trends by applying sampling weight to make it nationally representative. In this study, we used the data sources: Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination (KNHANES, '07-13, '15-18), Korean Community Health Survey (KCHS, '08-09, '13, '17), Korean Wealth Panel Study (KOWEPS, '12-18), Korea Health Panel Survey (KHP, '10-13), and Statistics Korea (1983-2017). The rate of suicidal ideation as recent year was 4.73% (KNHANES, '17), 6.96% (KCHS, '17), 2.29% (KOWEPS, '18), and 5.39% (KHP, '13). That of suicide attempt as recent year was 0.51% (KNHANES, '18), 0.32% (KCHS, '17), and 0.15% (KOWEPS, '18). Annual percentage change (APC) of suicidal ideation was -15.4% (KNHANES, '07-13, '15, '17), -2.5% (KCHS, '08-09, '13, '17), -10.8% (KOWEPS, '12-18), and -10.9% (KHP, '10-13). APC of suicide attempt was -4.4% (KNHANES, '07-13, '15-18), -4.4% (KCHS, '08-09, '13, '17), and -13.6% (KOWEPS, '12-18). APC of death by intentional self-harm was -1.25% (Statistics Korea, '07-18). All suicide-related indicators were found to be decreasing in the overall from 2009. Individuals with lower income level were more likely to experience suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Even though suicide rate had been continuously decreasing from its highest point in 2011 (suicide rate: 31.7 per 100,000 population) to 2017 (suicide rate: 24.3 per 100,000 population), it increased again in 2018 (suicide rate: 26.6 per 100,000 population). This information would be grounded on policy implementation for suicide prevention, thus continuous data observation is necessary.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.801-806
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• 2014

본 연구의 목적은 도시와 어촌노인의 가족친밀도에 따라 노인들의 자살충동에 대하여 분석하고자 한다. 연구대상은 2013년 3월10일 부터 7월 29일 까지 서울시 N구 거주하는 노인대상과 2013년 5월 17일부터 9월20일 까지 전남 완도군 S면 거주 노인대상으로 설문조사를 각각 100명으로 실시하였다. 자료 분석은 SPSS/WIN 18.0 프로그램을 이용하여 t-test, 상관분석, 다중회귀분석방법 등을 실시하였다. 실증분석은 유의수준 5%에서 검증하였다. 분석결과 첫째, 도시노인의 가족친밀도가 낮을수록 자살충동이 높은 것을 나타났다. 둘째, 도시노인의 자살충동은 가족친밀도와는 유의미한 상관관계가 있었다. 셋째, 자살충동은 도시노인이 어촌노인보다 더 높은 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 시사점으로는 가족기능의 친화력향상에 대한 노인들의 자살 예방정책 자료가 될 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.28-37
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• 2015

Objectives: Among the Korean elderly (those 65 years of age and older), the suicide rate is 80.3/100 000 people, which is ten times higher than the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development average. Because South Korea is rapidly becoming an aging population, this high elderly suicidal rate will only get worse. Although the size of the elderly suicide problem is quite large, previous research in South Korea has surveyed restricted areas and not the entire country. Even though the factors that affect elderly suicide are complicated, there has been little research into these influencing factors. Thus, this research uses the national survey data (Community Health Survey) that was obtained in 2009. Additionally, we analyze factors affecting elderly suicidal ideation and attempts as well as the paths of these effects. Methods: Community Health Survey data obtained by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2009 was used for this study. We additionally examined the factors that affect suicide with chi-squared tests, t-tests, Pearson's correlation test, and path analysis. Results: Depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation are the only factors that directly affect suicidal attempts. Demographic, behavioral, and physical activity factors have indirect effects on suicidal attempts. Conclusions: Depression has the strongest influence on suicidal ideation and attempts. Demographic, behavioral, and physical activity factors affect suicidal attempts mostly through depressive symptoms. In addition, there is a path that suggests that demographic, behavioral, and physical activity factors affect suicidal attempts not through depression symptoms but only through suicidal ideation. This means that the elderly who do not have depression symptoms attempt suicide according to their own situations and characteristics.

• 한국학교ㆍ지역보건교육학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.11-25
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• 2016

Background & Objectives: There were increasing evidence about the relationship between allergy related disease such as asthma, atopic dermatitis and allergic rhinitis and suicide ideation. However little was known about the concrete relatedness between severity and comorbidity of allergy related disease with suicide ideation. The objective of this study was to investigate the cases of the prevalence of suicide ideation among adolescents with allergy related disease such as asthma, atopic dermatitis and allergic rhinitis, and examine the association between allergy related disease and suicidal ideation among adolescents in South Korea. Methods: Data was based on Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey(2014) which was a cross-sectional study containing 34,874 Korean middle and high school students who diagnosed with allergy related disease. We used the weights, strata and primary sampling unit information provided by the public use dataset to compute descriptive statistics and logistic regressions. Computations were done with SPSS version 20.0. Results: 19.9%, 15.6%, 13.8% of adolescents who suffered from one, two and three of allergy related diseases respectively reported having been thought of suicide ideation. Socio-demographic factors were adjusted as control variables. Students with greater severity of disease were more likely to have suicide ideation. Odds ratio for students who were absent one to three days from school because of allergies was 1.96(95% CI 1.51-2.46), and odds ratio for those who were absent more than four days from school was 3.60(95% CI 2.46-5.28). Conclusions: Given that adolescents' severity and comorbidity of allergy related disease were clearly associated with suicide ideation, suicide prevention programs for adolescents with allergy related disease should be improved by strategic approaches towards the severity and comorbidity of disease.

• 한국사회정책
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.233-263
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• 2018

이 글은 정부의 자살예방을 위한 노력이 효과적으로 작동하지 않은 것은 변화하는 자살의 위험양식과 그 메커니즘을 포착하지 못했기 때문이라는 판단 하에 한국 사회의 자살위험 발생 양식의 역동적 변화를 밝히고자 한다. 이를 위해 자살율이 급증한 1997-1998년과 2008-2009년 두 경제위기 시기 자살 위험양식의 차이를 젠더 관점에서 살펴봄으로써 다음과 같은 세 가지 주요 논의를 제공한다. 첫째, 두 경제위기 시기 자살률이 증가한 기전이 서로 달랐다. 1997년 외환위기는 대기업 상용직 중심의 실업이, 2008년 금융위기는 비정규직 중심의 노동빈곤이 자살을 증가시키는 핵심 메커니즘으로 작동했다. 둘째, 따라서 각 시기별 남성과 여성의 자살위험 양식이 다르다. 다시 말해 1997년 외환위기의 효과는 대기업 상용직으로 주로 일하던 남성에게, 2008년 금융위기의 효과는 노동빈곤의 처지에 주로 있는 여성에게 상대적으로 더 크게 영향을 미쳤다. 마지막으로, 두 시기 발견되는 자살 위험양식과 메커니즘의 젠더 차이는 여성차별적 노동시장구조와 남성주도적 사회정책의 결과로 이해 가능하다. 즉, 여성을 사회적 보호가 미치지 못하는 노동시장의 주변부에 위치시킴과 동시에, 오히려 이들을 위기 시기 완충요소로 활용한 결과이다. 결론적으로 자살의 원인은 노동시장과 사회정책이라는 근본적이고 사회적인 지점에 있으며, 이러한 위험이 젠더와 결합하면서 또 다른 차별로 결과한다는 점을 알 수 있다. 따라서 한국의 자살예방을 위한 정책적 전략은 젠더 관점으로 접근하는 것이 바람직하며, 인구집단 건강 관점에서 자살의 사회적 원인에 그 중심을 둘 것을 제안한다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.51-60
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• 2008

Objectives : We examined the effect of sociodemographic factors, cancer, and psychiatric disorders on suicide by gender and age-specific patterns in South Korea. Methods : The study is a case-control study. Claim data was obtained from the national health insurance database and national death registration database. The number of people who committed suicide was 11,523, which was matched with a control group consisting of ten times as many people at 115,230 selected from the national health insurance and medical aids beneficiaries. The medical utilization of the case group was one year before death and that of the control group was from July 1,2003 to June 30, 2004. Four variables-address, economic status, presence of a psychiatric disease, and cancer-were used in multiple logistic regression analyses. Results : Living in cities or in rural areas showed a greater risk for suicide than living in a metropolitan city. Low economic status, the presence of a psychiatric disorder, and cancer were also statistically meaningful risk factors for suicide. The three major psychiatric diseases, schizophrenia, alcohol abuse, and bipolar disorder, were meaningful in all age groups, but the scale of the odds ratio differed by the age group. Only the psychiatric disorder variable was meaningful in the adolescent group, whereas a psychiatric disorder and economic status were meaningful for the young adult group, and all variables were meaningful for the middle-aged group. A psychiatric disorder and cancer were meaningful in the elderly group, economic status was meaningful for male subjects, and address was meaningful for female subjects. Conclusions : Factors such as living in city or rural areas, low economic status, the presence of a psychiatric disorder, and cancer were statistically meaningful risk factors in suicide. These factors also differed by age group. Therefore, policymakers should establish policies for suicide prevention that are relevant for each age group.

• 한국인구학
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.167-187
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• 2000

우리사회에서 노인 자살자의 수와 자살율이 지난 십 년간 지속적으로 증가하고 있다. 이는 한국 노인들이 당면하고 있는 문제들(경제적 불안정, 조기퇴직, 건강악화, 가족부양체계의 약화, 정서적 고립 등)의 심각성을 시사하고 있다. 하지만 노인자살에 관한 국내 연구는 거의 없는 실정이다. 노인자살현상에 대한 체계적인 연구를 통하여 자살의 배후에 있는 노인문제 혹은 생활조건을 확인하여 노인복지 차원에서 일차적 예방 대책을 강구하여야 할 것이다. 특히, 자살위험이 높은 특정 노인인구집단을 중심으로 자살예방 대책이 조속히 마련되어야 할 것이다. 따라서 이 연구는 우리 나라 노인문제의 구조적 상황과 노인자살과의 관련성을 사회학적 시각(교환이론과 사회통합이론)으로 조망해 본 후 이를 기초로 노인자살을 유도하는 노인생활의 조건을 개선할 수 있는 노인복지과제를 제시하여 한국노인의 자살율 증가를 예방하고자 하는데 그 주된 목적이 있다.

• Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.314-324
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• 2018

Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze research and development projects in mental health services in Korea, using priority evaluation of mental health promotion policies to determine direction of the service. Methods: An online survey was conducted that targeted experts in the mental health service regarding promotion of mental health in Korea in 2016. The survey was based on 32 policy projects that resulted from 12 strategies according to 4 policy objectives. Results: Analysis of 32 mental health projects were assessed regarding the possibility of technology development success, magnitude of the ripple effect, and necessity of a national response. It was observed that 3 policy projects relevant to suicide, had a high relative priority. This was followed by policies for improvement of health insurance and the medical benefit cost system, and policies for reinforcement of crisis psychological support such as those for disaster victims. Conclusion: The prioritization of mental health services should place an emphasis on promotion of a healthy mental lifestyle, rehabilitation support for patients with serious mental illness, and reinforcement of social safety networks for suicide prevention.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.2131-2139
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• 2013

본 연구는 청소년 탄력성과 자살충동과의 상관성을 명확하게 파악하여, 외적보호요인을 강화하는 보다 효과적인 청소년 자살예방 대안 제시를 목적으로 한다. 연구대상은 경기도에 소재하는 일반고 고등학교 1학년 남녀 학생 243명이며 2013년 3월 5일부터 1주일간 설문조사를 실시하였다. 분석방법은 빈도분석, 상관분석, 다중회귀분석, t-test, 일원변량분석 등을 실시하였고, 실증분석은 모두 유의수준 5%에서 검증하였다. 연구결과는 자살충동과 탄력성은 부의 상관관계가 있었으며, 특히 가정차원의 상호작용이 높을수록, 또래차원과 학교차원의 돌봄과 기대가 높을수록 자살충동이 낮았다. 본 연구의 시사점은 청소년 탄력성이 자살충동에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구결과를 바탕으로 자살예방정책마련을 위한 자료가 될 것으로 사료된다.