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Epidemiological research on suicide prevention through restricting access to suicide means

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K08798
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Hygiene and public health
Research InstitutionAsahikawa Medical College

Principal Investigator

YOSHIOKA EIJI  旭川医科大学, 医学部, 准教授 (70435957)

Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) SAIJO Yasuaki  旭川医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (70360906)
Kawanishi Yasuaki  旭川医科大学, 医学部, 客員助教 (30624027)
Research Collaborator Kawachi Ichiro  
Hanley Sharon  
Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Keywords自殺対策 / 自殺手段 / 記述疫学 / 自殺手段の制限 / 家庭用ガス / 排気ガス / 一酸化炭素 / 自殺 / 服毒 / 臭化物 / 疫学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project seeks to (1) provide a descriptive epidemiology of the epidemic of charcoal-burning suicide across time and space in Japan after 2003, (2) investigate the contribution of different methods of suicide to the overall suicide rate for males and females in Japan from 1950 to 1975, and (3) examine the changing patterns of gassing suicide by gender and age in Japan between 1968 and 1994. Our findings show that the introduction and diffusion of charcoal burning contributed to a real excess in suicide rates, as well as a widening of the urban/rural disparity in suicide in Japan between 2003 and 2013; poisoning by solid and liquid substances overwhelmingly contributed to the dramatic change in the overall suicide rates in males and females aged 15-49 years in the 1950s and 1960s; a reduction in the carbon monoxide content of domestic gas, which began in the early 1970s in Japan, may be associated with a decrease in domestic gas suicides as well as overall suicides.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All 2017 2016

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] An analysis of secular trends in method- specific suicides in Japan, 1950-19752017

    • Author(s)
      Eiji Yoshioka, Yasuaki Saijo, Ichiro Kawachi
    • Journal Title

      Population Health Metrics

      Volume: 15 Issue: 1 Pages: 14-14

    • DOI

      10.1186/s12963-017-0131-7

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Spatial and temporal evolution of the epidemic of charcoal- burning suicide in Japan2016

    • Author(s)
      Eiji Yoshioka, Yasuaki Saijo & Ichiro Kawachi
    • Journal Title

      Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

      Volume: Jan 27. Issue: 6 Pages: 857-868

    • DOI

      10.1007/s00127-016-1172-0

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] 日本の家庭用ガス及び排気ガスによる自殺率の推移2017

    • Author(s)
      吉岡英治, 西條泰明
    • Organizer
      第76回日本公衆衛生学会総会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 日本の1950年代および60年代における手段別自殺率の推移2016

    • Author(s)
      吉岡英治, 西條泰明, イチローカワチ
    • Organizer
      第75回日本公衆衛生学会総会
    • Place of Presentation
      大阪
    • Year and Date
      2016-10-26
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Spatial and temporal evolution of the epidemic of charcoal- burning suicide in Japan2016

    • Author(s)
      Eiji Yoshioka, Yasuaki Saijo & Ichiro Kawachi
    • Organizer
      第26回日本疫学会学術総会
    • Place of Presentation
      米子
    • Year and Date
      2016-01-22
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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