Intimate Partnerships, Suicidal Ideation and Suicide-Related Hospitalization Among Young Kenyan Men.

Intimate Partnerships, Suicidal Ideation and Suicide-Related Hospitalization Among Young Kenyan Men.
Community Ment Health J. 2020 Feb 04;:
Authors: Goodman ML, Seidel SE, Gibson D, Lin G, Patel J, Keiser P, Gitari S
Abstract
The first study focused on a three-month chart review containing information on suicide attempts (n = 34) admitted to a local mission hospital in Meru County, Kenya. The second study utilized a cross-sectional survey administered to men 18-34 years old (n = 532) residing in rural Kenya. Data posit intimate partnership discord as salient to suicide ideation and behavior. Men who reported their partner status was "divorced" had four-times the odds of reporting suicide ideation than other partnership states, an association significantly mediated by loneliness. Violent conflict tactics predicted suicidal ideation, mediated by loneliness and decreased marital satisfaction.
PMID: 32020388 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Community Mental Health Journal - February 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Goodman ML, Seidel SE, Gibson D, Lin G, Patel J, Keiser P, Gitari S Tags: Community Ment Health J Source Type: research