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FC14-04 - Tobacco smoking and suicidal ideation and planning in schoolchildren 12–15 years old from ten low- and middle-income countries: impact of cultural differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

M. Innamorati ,
D. De Leo ,
G. Serafini ,
Z. Rihmer ,
D. Lester ,
M. Amore ,
P. Girardi ,
R. Tatarelli  and
M. Pompili
M. Innamorati
Affiliation:
Sapienza University of Roma, Roma, Italy
D. De Leo
Affiliation:
AuGriffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
G. Serafini
Affiliation:
Sapienza University of Roma, Roma, Italy
Z. Rihmer
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical and Theoretical Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
D. Lester
Affiliation:
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ, USA
M. Amore
Affiliation:
Department of Neurosciences Division of Psychiatry, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
P. Girardi
Affiliation:
Sapienza University of Roma, Roma, Italy
R. Tatarelli
Affiliation:
Sapienza University of Roma, Roma, Italy
M. Pompili
Affiliation:
Sapienza University of Roma, Roma, Italy McLean Hospital – Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA

Abstract

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Objective

The authors examined the association between tobacco smoking and suicidal ideation and planning in schoolchildren from 10 countries in Africa, the Americas, and the Western Pacific region.

Method

Data were collected through the Global school-based Student Health Survey (GSHS), a collaborative surveillance project between the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNAIDS, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Suicidal ideation and planning, tobacco smoking, and drug and alcohol use were included in loglinear models to analyze, separately for each sex, higher order interactions among suicidality and regional and country differences.

Results

Schoolchildren who reported suicidal ideation and/or suicidal planning had a higher risk of smoking cigarettes even after controlling for drug and alcohol misuse. Furthermore, analyses indicated higher order interactions between suicidal ideation and planning and countries belonging to different regions with different exposure to tobacco smoking among schoolchildren.

Conclusion

Future studies analyzing the mechanism and sequencing of the relationship among suicidal ideation and tobacco smoking should explore cultural factors.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 1896
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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