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Mortalidad por suicidio en Nicaragua, 2018–2025: distribución por sexo, edad y territorio
By Guerra Vanegas JE and Pérez Martinez OJPM.
Abstract
Introduction
Nicaragua has no single official source that continuously publishes suicide mortality disaggregated by sex, age, and territory.
Objective
To describe registered suicide mortality in 2018–2025, to test its distribution by sex in 2020, to estimate departmental rates with confidence intervals, and to compare three data sources.
Methods
Ecological, observational, retrospective study using official secondary data (Ministry of Health, National Police, National Institute of Development Information, United Nations Population Division, and World Health Organization). A chi-square goodness-of-fit test (H0: parity) was applied to the 324 cases from 2020 with a recorded sex, with a sensitivity analysis for 20 cases lacking sex. Crude rates per 100,000 inhabitants were calculated with exact 95% Poisson confidence intervals (CI), together with rate ratios against the rest of the country.