Prevalence and comorbidity of common mental disorders and associations with suicidal ideation in the adult population
- Author:
Yousef VEISANI
1
;
Fathola MOHAMADIAN
;
Ali DELPISHEH
Author Information
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords: Suicide; Comorbidity; Suicidal ideation; Mental disorders
- MeSH: Adult; Comorbidity; Cross-Sectional Studies; Depressive Disorder, Major; Developing Countries; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Family Characteristics; Female; Humans; Male; Mass Screening; Mental Disorders; Methods; Multivariate Analysis; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Odds Ratio; Prevalence; Suicidal Ideation; Suicide
- From:Epidemiology and Health 2017;39(1):2017031-
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: OBJECTIVES: Little information exists on the association between comorbidities of mental disorders and suicidal ideation in developing countries. The current study examined the relationship between the presence of comorbid mental disorders and suicidal ideation in the adult population.METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted using the cluster random sampling method in 3 steps. Data were collected from a household assets survey and the self-administered 28-item General Health Questionnaire as first step in screening, and the Persian version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition - Text Revision was used in the second stage to determine the prevalence of mental disorders. Bivariate and multivariate analysis were used to investigate the associations between mental disorders and suicidal ideation.RESULTS: Of the 763 participants, 199 (26.1%) had 1 or more mental disorder. Forty-two (71.4%) subjects with comorbidities had a history of suicidal ideation, whereas 59 (7.7%) of all participants had a history of suicidal ideation. We found that major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder were the most predictive of suicidal ideation in both sexes. The odds ratio for suicidal ideation associated with having 3 comorbid disorders was 2.70 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.40 to 14.12) in males and 3.06 (95% CI, 1.25 to 15.22) in females.CONCLUSIONS: Consistent with pervious data, our results confirmed that mental disorders and comorbidities of mental disorders were important predictors of suicidal ideation. Our findings are very useful for applied intervention programs to reduce the suicide rate in regions in which it is high.
