Depression As a Strong Prediction of Suicide Risk

Abstract

Suicide happens throughout one’s life and is a serious health problem. World Health Organization (WHO) placed suicidal problem as society health priority. Many things is related to suicide, among others mental disorders like depression, anxiety, alcohol consumption behavior, life pressure experienced, financial problem, personal relation, or so is chronic illness experienced, conflict occurred, disaster, harassment, alienation social demography characteristic. Objective research to identify the risk factor of suicidal thought in several regions in Indonesia. The study design was Cross sectional research conducted in 3 (three) districts/cities in Indonesia. Proportional illustration Sample taken conducted using stratified random sampling.  Fixed variables analyzed such as the suicidal thoughts with the independent variable are gender, age, marital status, education, employment, ownership statistic, depression, anxiety. Univariate, bivariate and multivariate using the SPSS software. The result of the research showed that suicidal behavior happened more often to depressed individual, lived in the cities, anxious, productive age group, has low education level. Respondent suffered through depression 11 times more likely to have suicidal thoughts. The risk of suicidal behavior also increased 5 times to respondent in the cities. Respondent living anxiety 2 times riskier to have suicidal intent. Blue collar respondent also 2 times more risk in comparison to civil servants to have suicidal intent. Therefore it can be concluded that The influence of psychological factors is more substantial to inflict suicidal behavior, even though there is also effect of the social economy factor.

Predicting self-harm and suicide ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia: A nationwide survey report

“…This could become a risk factor as previous studies found family support could buffer the psychological problems during the crisis like the pandemic (Chen et al, 2021;Pramukti et al, 2020;Zhu et al, 2021). The current study also aligned with a previous study on suicidal behavior among Indonesian people before the pandemic, whereby people living in urban area had 3.00 times higher suicide risk due to economic stress than people living in non-urban area (Mubasyiroh et al, 2018).…”

“…264this study complemented previous studies on suicidal behavior in specific age groups 265 and limited geographical locations in Indonesia before the pandemic(Ahmad & Turnip, 266 2020;Mubasyiroh et al, 2018;Putra et al, 2019). It was found that nearly 40% of 267 participants in this study reported self-harm and suicide ideation.…”

“…There are studies on suicide behavior in certain age groups and specific geographical locations in Indonesia in pre-pandemic (Ahmad & Turnip, 2020;Mubasyiroh et al, 2018;Putra et al, 2019). However, there are no studies on self-harm and suicide ideation for wider population and more diverse groups, especially during the pandemic.…”

“…Moreover, compared to men, women in the patriarchal society are expected to be more active in parenting and caregiving tasks, with additional risks of experiencing domestic violence (Almeida et al, 2020). Consequently, within these more challenging situations, women were more likely developed mental disorders such as anxiety and depression that were consistently found to be associated with suicidal behavior (Mubasyiroh et al, 2018;Zhu et al, 2021).…”

Determinants of Depression in Indonesian Youth: Findings From a Community-based Survey

“…Another reason that depression is crucial is that it could lead to suicide. A study in 3 cities in Indonesia showed that people with depression were 11 times more likely to have suicidal thoughts [ 6 ].…”