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The suicide rate in the rural areas was higher than that in the urban areas in both genders (males (\/100,000), 12.2 vs. 8.5; females (\/100,000),  10.2 vs. 7.4 in 2012). However, the trend significantly increased only in the urban area (AAPC [95% CI]: males 2.6 [0.7, 4.6], females 3.3 [1.4, 5.2]). In urban areas, the suicide rate by jumping significantly increased in both genders (AAPC [95% CI]: males, 6.7 [4.3, 9.1]; females, 4.5 [3.0, 6.1]). In rural areas, the rate by self-poisoning significantly decreased by 7.9% per year for males (95% CI: \u221212.5, \u22123.0) and the rate by hanging significantly increased by 10.1% per year for females (95% CI: 2.6, 18.2). The trend and methods of suicide differ according to urbanity; therefore, a suicide prevention policy based on urbanity needs to be established for adolescents in Korea.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph120505129","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,5,13]],"date-time":"2015-05-13T12:42:07Z","timestamp":1431520927000},"page":"5129-5142","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Trend of Suicide Rates According to Urbanity among Adolescents by Gender and Suicide Method in Korea, 1997\u20132012"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Kyung-Hwa","family":"Choi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Hallym Research Institute of Clinical Epidemiology, Hallym University, 1 Hallymdaehak-gil, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do 200-702, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dong-Hyun","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hallym Research Institute of Clinical Epidemiology, Hallym University, 1 Hallymdaehak-gil, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do 200-702, Korea"},{"name":"Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Hallym University,  1 Hallymdaehak-gil, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do 200-702, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,5,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"WHO (2014). 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