Researchers from National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital Discuss Research in Environmental Research and Public Health (Comparison of Suicide Attempts and Suicide Deaths by Jumping from a High Place in Korean Children and Adolescents): Environmental Health – Environmental Research and Public Health

2021 OCT 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Mental Health News Daily -- Investigators publish new report on environmental research and public health. According to news reporting originating from Goyang, South Korea, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Jumping from a high place is the most common method of suicide among Korean children and adolescents.”

Financial supporters for this research include National Research Foundation of Korea.

Our news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital: “The aim of this study was to examine the personal, family, and school life of Korean children and adolescents who chose jumping from a high place, among suicide attempts and suicide deaths, based on teachers’ reports. Data on suicide attempts and suicide deaths by jumping from a high place in children and adolescents were collected through the Ministry of Education in South Korea from 2016 to 2018. We compared sociodemographic variables, suicide-related variables, emotional and behavioral status, school life related variables, and variables related to family problems among suicide deaths (n = 262), actual suicide attempts (n = 50), and interrupted or aborted suicide attempts (n = 210). There were differences in educational stage (* * p* * < 0.001), place of suicide (* * p* * < 0.001), presence of suicide note (* * p* * < 0.05) and previous suicide attempt (* * p* * < 0.001) among the three groups. The total difficulty score on the Strength Difficulty Questionnaire of interrupted or aborted suicide attempts was higher than that of the other two groups.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Our study suggests that the suicide death group tend to present fewer personal and family pathologies and better school adjustment than the suicide attempt group.”

For more information on this research see: Comparison of Suicide Attempts and Suicide Deaths by Jumping from a High Place in Korean Children and Adolescents. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021,18(9513):9513. (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph). The publisher for International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189513.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Jungeun Song, Department of Psychiatry, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang 10444, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Sung-Hee Hong, Joonbeom Kim, Seyeun Chang, Ki-Hwan Yook, Hyun Ju Hong. Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world.