ArticleBMC psychiatry2015
Occupational class differences in suicide: evidence of changes over time and during the global financial crisis in Australia.
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- The ripple effect: a digital intervention to reduce suicide stigma among farming men.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Black Swan Pandemic and the Risk of Pilot Suicide.Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- Assessing the impact of the economic crises in 1997 and 2008 on suicides in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea using a strata-bootstrap algorithm.Journal of applied statistics · 2020Article
- Suicide mortality follow-up of the Swiss National Cohort (1990-2014): sex-specific risk estimates by occupational socio-economic group in working-age population.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2019Article
- Suicide Trends over Time by Occupation in Korea and Their Relationship to Economic Downturns.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- A blended face-to-face and smartphone intervention for suicide prevention in the construction industry: protocol for a randomized controlled trial with MATES in Construction.BMC psychiatry · 2019Article
- Online assessment of suicide stigma, literacy and effect in Australia's rural farming community.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Male suicide among construction workers in Australia: a qualitative analysis of the major stressors precipitating death.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Access to means of suicide, occupation and the risk of suicide: a national study over 12 years of coronial data.BMC psychiatry · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious research showed an increase in Australian suicide rates during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). There has been no research investigating whether suicide rates by occupational class changed during the GFC. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the GFC-associated increase in suicide rates in employed Australians may have masked changes by occupational class.
methodsNegative binomial regression models were used to investigate Rate Ratios (RRs) in suicide by occupational class. Years of the GFC (2007, 2008, 2009) were compared to the baseline years 2001-2006.
resultsThere were widening disparities between a number of the lower class occupations and the highest class occupations during the years 2007, 2008, and 2009 for males, but less evidence of differences for females.
conclusionsOccupational disparities in suicide rates widened over the GFC period. There is a need for programs to be responsive to economic downturns, and to prioritise the occupational groups most affected.
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