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Women’s Suicide in the First-Year Postpartum: A Population-based Study

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  • Chen, Ying-Yeh
  • Canetto, Silvia Sara
  • Chien-Chang Wu, Kevin
  • Chen, Yi-Lung

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In dominant suicidology there is a long traditionof theorizing that women are protected from suicide, particularly when mothers and during the postpartum. Studies have mostly confirmed the postpartum suicide-protection theory, with low suicide mortality generally observed among postpartum women. A limitation of these studies is that most were conducted in majority European-descent-population countries. A challenge to the more general maternal suicide-protection theory is that in East-Asia women of childbearing age exhibit substantial suicidality, nonfatal and fatal. This study evaluated whether suicide is less likely in first-year postpartum women as compared to women past the first-year postpartum.

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  • Chen, Ying-Yeh & Canetto, Silvia Sara & Chien-Chang Wu, Kevin & Chen, Yi-Lung, 2022. "Women’s Suicide in the First-Year Postpartum: A Population-based Study," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 292(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:292:y:2022:i:c:s0277953621009266
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114594
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