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KMID : 1151020200480040091
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Mental Health & Social Work
2020 Volume.48 No. 4 p.91 ~ p.114
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Suicidal Ideation Differences to Bereavement Experiences in Korean Adults - Focused on 2019 Koreans Views of Life and Death Survey -
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Jeong Ye-Bin
Kim Clara Tammy
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Abstract
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A bereavement is an inevitable event for humans. Bereavement effects on one’s health not only physically but also mentally. Especially in case of the causal of death is a shocking event like murder or suicide, there’s a possibility to evolve complicated grief and delay recovery of the bereaved. Severe mental and physical pain caused by bereavement can lead to suicide. This study aimed to find out the suicidal ideation of adults in Korea based on their bereavement experience by suicide.
Data were derived from the 2019 Koreans Views of Life and Death Survey. This study examined 1,533 adults aged from 20 to 69. Suicidal Ideation, a dependent variable, was measured based on the question of whether a respondent had any suicidal thoughts within a past year (1=yes, 0=No). Bereavement experience was measured based on two questions whether a respondent had an experience of bereavement by suicide and whether a respondent had an experience of bereavement except by suicide. The participants were classified as no bereavement (n=626), bereavement by non-suicide causes (n=656), bereavement only by suicide (n=54), and bereavement both by suicide and non-suicide causes (n=197). A logistic regression was conducted using ‘IBM SPSS Statistics v25’ software package.
Experience of bereavement was a significant risk factor for suicidal ideation after adjusting demographic factors and factors of subjective cognition about bereavement experience. Adults bereaved only by suicide (OR=2.09; 95% CI=1.09-4.00; p<.05) and both by suicide and non-suicide causes (OR=2.15; 95% CI=1.01-4.58; p<.05) had a higher probability of suicidal ideation than those never bereaved someone.
The findings indicate that suicidal ideation is significantly associated with bereavement experience only if the experience is by suicidal causes. However, the relationship was not significant in cases of people who experienced bereavement by non-suicidal causes. Through this study, we can suggest that a relationship between bereavement experiences and suicidal ideation should be considered when developing intervention strategies for suicide or complicated grief.
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KEYWORD
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Bereavement,, Bereavement experience, Suicide, Suicidal ideation, Suicide prevention
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