Prevalence of suicidal thoughts and attempts in the transgender population of the world: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Annals of General Psychiatry

Research

Ghobad Moradi¹  Farhad Moradpour¹  Yousef Moradi¹  Parisa Kohnepoushi²  Parsa Hasanabadi²  Hamza Rahmani²  Mojtaba Cheraghi²  Maryam Moradi²  Maziar Nikouei² 

[1] Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for Health Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran;Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran;

关键词: Suicidal thoughts;    Suicidal attempts;    Transgender;    Meta-analysis;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12991-023-00460-3

 received in 2023-01-21, accepted in 2023-07-29,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe aim of this meta-analysis was to determine global pooled prevalence of suicide thoughts and attempts in transgender population.MethodsFor doing comprehensive search strategy related to objectives in the presence meta-analysis, all international databases like PubMed (Medline), Scopus, Embase, Web of Sciences, PsycINFO, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINHAL) were searched from January 1990 to December 2022. The quality of the final selected studies was evaluated according to Newcastle–Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale for cross-sectional studies. The subgroup analysis was done based on type of transgender (female to male, male to female) and prevalence (point, period, and lifetime), country, and criteria of diagnosis. All analysis was done in STATA version 17.ResultsFrom the total number of 65 selected studies, 71 prevalence of suicidal thoughts, including point, period, and lifetime prevalence were extracted and combined. After combining these values, the prevalence of suicidal thoughts in the transgender population in the world was 39% in the past month (pooled point prevalence: 39%; 95% CI 35–43%), 45% in the past year (pooled period prevalence: 45%; % 95 CI 35–54%) and 50% during lifetime (pooled lifetime prevalence: 50%; % 95 CI 42–57%). Also, the prevalence of suicide attempt in the transgender population of the world was 16% in the past month (pooled point prevalence: 16%; 95% CI 13–19%), 11% in the past year (pooled period prevalence: 11%; % 95 CI 5–19%) and 29% during lifetime (pooled lifetime prevalence: 29%; % 95 CI 25–34%).ConclusionThe present meta-analysis results showed the prevalence of suicidal thoughts and attempts in the transgender community was high, and more importantly, about 50% of transgenders who had suicidal thoughts, committed suicide.

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