SynthesisBMC public health2014
The socio-environmental determinants of railway suicide: a systematic review.
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- Are we Using the Right Evidence to Inform Suicide Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? An Umbrella Review.Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide ResearchPooled it
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- Preventing suicides on the railways: learning from lived and living experiences.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Change in incidents of suicidal acts after intervention on a bridge in South Korea.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Analysing factors influencing railway accidents: A predictive approach using multinomial logistic regression and data mining.PloS one · 2025Article
- Sociodemographic and psychosocial risk factors of railway suicide a mixed-methods study combining data of all suicide decedents in the Netherlands with data from a psychosocial autopsy study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Identifying Witnessed Suicides in National Violent Death Reporting System Narratives.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Train-related suicidal decapitation.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2021Article
- Suicide on the Railways in Belgium: A Typology of Locations and Potential for Prevention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Individual and community factors for railway suicide: a matched case-control study in Victoria, Australia.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundRailway suicide has significant adverse impacts for the victims, their family and friends, witnesses to the incident, general public and train network. There is no previous review on the socio-environmental factors and railway suicide. The research question asked in this review was: 'What socio-environmental risk and protective predictors are significantly associated with railway suicide?'
methodsThe review searched Medline, PsycINFO, Web of Science and Scopus for English-language studies that assessed the associations between socio-environmental (i.e. geographical, physical, economic and social) factors and railway suicide from their inception to June 2013. It was reported based on the PRISMA Statement.
resultsEleven studies met the inclusion criteria. They were categorised into railway environments (availability of railways and trains, accessibility to railways and familiarity with trains), population characteristics and impact of media reporting. Findings from ecological studies using population level railway suicide data suggested weak and inconsistent evidence for the first two categories. The evidence on the impact of media reporting was moderately strong, with irresponsible media reporting being associated with an increased risk of railway suicide.
conclusionsThere is a need for further research activity to strengthen evidence about socio-environmental risk factors for railway suicide. The focus of this research should be on the factors that determine individuals' decisions of using the railway as a method of suicide, with the consideration of a range of geographical, physical, social, and economic factors.
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