ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Suicidal Presentations to Emergency Departments in a Large Australian Public Health Service over 10 Years.
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- Secondary mental health service utilisation following emergency department contact for suicidal behaviour: A systematic review.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Hospital presenting suicidal ideation: A systematic review.Clinical psychology & psychotherapy · 2022Pooled it
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- Patterns in health service use during and up to 1 year after an acute episode of hospital-presenting self-harm: data linkage cohort study of over 1.3 million records.BJPsych open · 2026Article
- Implementing Cultural Safety in Research Methodology: The Co-Design Process of a Brief Therapeutic Intervention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Young People Who Engage in Self-Harm and/or Suicidal Behaviours.The Australian journal of rural health · 2026Article
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- Emergency Department Use Following Self-Harm and Suicide Ideation: An Analysis of the Influence of Cultural and/or Linguistic Diversity Using Data From the Self-Harm Monitoring System for Victoria (2012-2019).International journal of mental health nursing · 2025Article
- Childhood contact with social services, self-harm and suicidal or self-harm ideation in young adulthood: a population-wide record-linkage study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2025Article
- Youth suicidality risk relative to ambient temperature and heatwaves across climate zones: A time series analysis of emergency department presentations in New South Wales, Australia.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- The risk of repeated self-harm and suicide after emergency department presentation with self-harm in mental health presenters: a retrospective cohort study with data linkage in Queensland, Australia.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Article
- Electronic Health Record Phenotyping of Pediatric Suicide-Related Emergency Department Visits.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Exploring the lived experience of receiving mental health crisis care at emergency departments, crisis phone lines and crisis care alternatives.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Descriptive analysis of 1,048 presentations in the first five years of a zero-suicide framework in a child and youth mental health service in Australia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- The implementation of a zero-suicide framework in a child and youth mental health service in Australia: processes and learnings.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Designing Implementation Strategies for a Digital Suicide Safety Planning Intervention in a Psychiatric Emergency Department: Protocol for a Multimethod Research Project.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Using machine learning to mine mental health diagnostic groups from emergency department presentations before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Discover mental health · 2023Article
- Presentations of self-harm and suicide-related ideation among the Irish Traveller indigenous population to hospital emergency departments: evidence from the National Clinical Programme for self-harm.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Article
- Intentional self-harm in culturally and linguistically diverse communities: A study of hospital admissions in Victoria, Australia.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- Growth in emergency department self-harm or suicidal ideation presentations in young people: Comparing trends before and since the COVID-19 first wave in New South Wales, Australia.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
This paper presents trends and characteristics for 32,094 suicidal presentations to two Emergency Departments (EDs) in a large health service in Australia across a 10-year period (2009-2018). Prevalence of annual suicidal presentations and for selected groups of consumers (by sex, age groups, and ethnicity) was determined from a machine learning diagnostic algorithm developed for this purpose and a Bayesian estimation approach. A linear increase in the number of suicidal presentations over 10 years was observed, which was 2.8-times higher than the increase noted in all ED presentations and 6.1-times higher than the increase in the population size. Females had higher presentation rates than males, particularly among younger age groups. The highest rates of presentations were by persons aged 15-24. Overseas-born persons had around half the rates of suicidal presentations than Australian-born persons, and Indigenous persons had 2.9-times higher rates than non-Indigenous persons. Of all presenters, 70.6% presented once, but 5.7% had five or more presentations. Seasonal distribution of presentations showed a peak at the end of spring and a decline in winter months. These findings can inform the allocation of health resources and guide the development of suicide prevention strategies for people presenting to hospitals in suicidal crisis.
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