ArticleCommunity mental health journal2015
Examining undetermined and accidental deaths as source of 'under-reported-suicide' by age and sex in twenty Western countries.
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- Suicide Attempts in US Veterans with Chronic Headache Disorders: A 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of pain research · 2021Article
- How to make adjustments of underreporting of suicide by place, gender, and age in China?Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2020Article
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- The influence of undetermined deaths on suicides in Shanghai, China.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2019Article
- Drowning mortality by intent: a population-based cross-sectional study of 32 OECD countries, 2012-2014.BMJ open · 2018Article
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- Discerning suicide in drug intoxication deaths: Paucity and primacy of suicide notes and psychiatric history.PloS one · 2018Observational
- Suicide methods in children and adolescents.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2017Article
- Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics?PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectives'Undetermined' (UnD) and accidental deaths (AccD) are explored as possible sources of 'under-reported-suicides' (URS) in 20 Western countries.
methodsWHO mortality rates per million of AccD, UnD and suicides analysed. UnD:suicides ratios of <1:5 calculated as likely URS versus ratios >1:10 unlikely URS and all correlated by sex and age.
resultsMale URS likely in 7 countries and in 11 for females. URS in AccD likely in 5 countries for both sexes only UnD and suicide rates the elderly (75+) significantly correlated.
conclusionStrong indication of URS in the UK, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany with likely URS in AccD in Greece, Portugal, Switzerland and USA. These findings have important implications, indicating that, with the exception of France and Japan, official reported suicide rates contain a degree of under-reporting, and especially for women yet it is essential to have accurate suicide data to ensure adequate service provision.
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