Parental mental health and risk of poor mental health and death by suicide in offspring
Background Suicide is a major public health concern. Identifying those most at risk is vital for effective targeting of interventions. Mental health (MH) has a genetic component and parental MH is associated with child’s MH. However, little is known on the effect of parental MH on a child’s risk of...
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2018-06-01
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| author | Aideen Maguire Foteini Tseliou Dermot O'Reilly |
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| description | Background
Suicide is a major public health concern. Identifying those most at risk is vital for effective targeting of interventions. Mental health (MH) has a genetic component and parental MH is associated with child’s MH. However, little is known on
the effect of parental MH on a child’s risk of death by suicide.
Methods
Data from 2011 Northern Ireland Census was linked to 5 years’ death records (2011-2015) to construct multi-level regression models to determine if children living with parents with poor self-rated MH are at an increased risk of poor MH themselves and an increased risk of death by suicide.
Results
618,970 individuals live with their parents; with almost 1 in 7 (13.7%) living with parents with poor MH and 225 (0.1%) dying by suicide during follow-up. Interim results suggest after full adjustment, children with 2 parents with poor MH were
5 times more likely to have poor MH themselves (OR=5.30, 95% CI 4.62,6.09), and children with 1 parent with poor MH were 67% more likely to die by suicide compared to children of parents with good MH (OR=1.67, 95%CI 1.19, 2.33).
Conclusions
Parental MH is associated with child suicide risk even after adjustment for their own MH status. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-970fa483489e4f049e73168a7cd240f42023-12-02T21:25:00ZengSwansea UniversityInternational Journal of Population Data Science2399-49082018-06-013210.23889/ijpds.v3i2.488488Parental mental health and risk of poor mental health and death by suicide in offspringAideen Maguire0Foteini Tseliou1Dermot O'Reilly2Centre for Public Health, Queen's University BelfastADRC-NI, Queen's University BelfastCentre for Public Health, Queen's University BelfastBackground Suicide is a major public health concern. Identifying those most at risk is vital for effective targeting of interventions. Mental health (MH) has a genetic component and parental MH is associated with child’s MH. However, little is known on the effect of parental MH on a child’s risk of death by suicide. Methods Data from 2011 Northern Ireland Census was linked to 5 years’ death records (2011-2015) to construct multi-level regression models to determine if children living with parents with poor self-rated MH are at an increased risk of poor MH themselves and an increased risk of death by suicide. Results 618,970 individuals live with their parents; with almost 1 in 7 (13.7%) living with parents with poor MH and 225 (0.1%) dying by suicide during follow-up. Interim results suggest after full adjustment, children with 2 parents with poor MH were 5 times more likely to have poor MH themselves (OR=5.30, 95% CI 4.62,6.09), and children with 1 parent with poor MH were 67% more likely to die by suicide compared to children of parents with good MH (OR=1.67, 95%CI 1.19, 2.33). Conclusions Parental MH is associated with child suicide risk even after adjustment for their own MH status.https://ijpds.org/article/view/488 |
| spellingShingle | Aideen Maguire Foteini Tseliou Dermot O'Reilly Parental mental health and risk of poor mental health and death by suicide in offspring International Journal of Population Data Science |
| title | Parental mental health and risk of poor mental health and death by suicide in offspring |
| title_full | Parental mental health and risk of poor mental health and death by suicide in offspring |
| title_fullStr | Parental mental health and risk of poor mental health and death by suicide in offspring |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parental mental health and risk of poor mental health and death by suicide in offspring |
| title_short | Parental mental health and risk of poor mental health and death by suicide in offspring |
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