Caregiving as suicide-prevention: an ecological 20-country study of the association between men's family carework, unemployment, and suicide.

This study's findings that higher levels of men's family carework were associated with lower suicide mortality, especially among men and under high-unemployment conditions, point to the suicide-protective potential of men's family carework. They are consistent with evidence that where gender equality is greater, men's and women's well-being, health, and longevity are greater.