At least 1 in 5 suicides globally associated with unemployment, scientists find

Around a one fifth of all suicide deaths are down to unemployment concerns research has shown, Swiss scientists have found. This is far higher than other causes such of ending ones life such as economic downturns.

The survey, which was conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Zurich's Psychiatric Hospital, found that suicides associated with unemployment were nine times higher than the number of suicides attributed to the economic crisis.

"Every year, around one in five suicides is associated with unemployment," said the lead author of the study, Carlos Nordt. The study has just been published in the journal The Lancet Psychiatry .... http://rt.com