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

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

Social Science & Medicine, 2022, vol. 292, issue C

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Suicide; Postpartum; Maternal suicide; Taiwan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114594

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