Intimate Partnerships, Suicidal Ideation and Suicide-Related Hospitalization Among Young Kenyan Men

Michael L. Goodman; Sarah E. Seidel; Derrick Gibson; Gwen Lin; Janki Patel; Philip Keiser; Stanley Gitari

doi:10.1007/s10597-020-00572-0

Intimate Partnerships, Suicidal Ideation and Suicide-Related Hospitalization Among Young Kenyan Men

Michael L. Goodman
, Sarah E. Seidel
, Derrick Gibson
, Gwen Lin
, Janki Patel
, Philip Keiser
, Stanley Gitari

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Abstract

The first study focused on a three-month chart review containing information on suicide attempts (n = 34) admitted to a local mission hospital in Meru County, Kenya. The second study utilized a cross-sectional survey administered to men 18–34 years old (n = 532) residing in rural Kenya. Data posit intimate partnership discord as salient to suicide ideation and behavior. Men who reported their partner status was “divorced” had four-times the odds of reporting suicide ideation than other partnership states, an association significantly mediated by loneliness. Violent conflict tactics predicted suicidal ideation, mediated by loneliness and decreased marital satisfaction.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1225-1238
Number of pages	14
Journal	Community Mental Health Journal
Volume	56
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00572-0
State	Published - Oct 1 2020

Keywords

Hospitalization
Intimate partnerships
Kenya
Suicidal ideation
Young men

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Health(social science)
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Psychiatry and Mental health

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