Suicidal tendencies as correlates of disability measures
- Båtstad, Helge
- Rudmin, Floyd Webster
DOIAbstract
Abstract Disabilities and resultant handicaps may impair health-related quality of life to the degree that individuals feel that life is not worth living. Using archived 2009 Canadian Community Health Survey data, this study found that each of seven measures of disabilities (Health Utilities Index sub-scales of problems in (1) vision, (2) hearing, (3) speech, (4) mobility, (5) dexterity, (6) cognition, and (7) pain) had small but significant (p<0.001) positive correlations with each of seven measures of suicidality: (1) Health Utilities Index emotion problems, (2) diagnosed depression, (3) dissatisfaction with life in general, (4) feeling helpless dealing with problems in life, (5) feeling hopeless during the past month, (6) feeling worthle...
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