17, July 2017 A large Canadian study found that people with learning difficulties - especially women - a much higher rate of suicidal be...
17, July 2017
A large Canadian study found that people with learning difficulties - especially women - a much higher rate of suicidal behavior than the general population had had, even after accounting for risk factors such as depression, abuse substances and the economic situation.
have the data from the Health Survey Canadian Community in 2012 allowed researchers a representative sample of more than 21,000 Canadians to identify about 750 of them reported was diagnosed with learning disabilities. Even after factors for comorbidities, socioeconomic and demographic controlling, the study found that 16 percent of women had attempted suicide with learning difficulties in his life - compared to only 3.3 percent of women in the general population. Men with learning disabilities are at high risk, too - 7.7 percent versus 2.1 percent - but the results of the cohort women were dramatic, the researchers said.
The relationship of cause and effect between learning problems and suicide attempts is not known, but the authors of the study speculated that the high rates of sexual and physical abuse can be the culprit in this population. Adults with learning disabilities who reported abuse that they as children in life had twice almost the risk of suicide attempt. This correlation may be related also to personal and family stress that often comes with learning problems, according to researchers.
"The learning disabilities such as dyslexia a very long shadow", has said the lead author , the Professor Fuller Esme Thomson , the University of Toronto . "Adults with learning disabilities were to have 46 percent more frequently attempt suicide than their counterparts without any problems to learn, although a wide range of other risk factors. "
He stressed the importance of proactive identification and treatment of these people who have difficulty with suicidality is to support due to lack of schools and / or social.
"Our results for the close relationship between learning problems and suicide attempts are another reason, the priority of early detection and effective care for children with dyslexia and other learning difficulties to give timely, educational interventions," he said. "Besides the benefits to improve study skills and academic success of these treatments, it is possible that may reduce suicide risk of long-term.
"It is unacceptable that many children with learning disorders for years languishing on lists of required educational interventions wait," he said.
