ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2021
Trends in method-specific suicide in Brazil from 2000 to 2017.
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- Can role model women in politics help married women reduce suicides? Evidence from a quasi-experimental study in Brazil.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The rise in mortality due to intentional self-poisoning by medicines in Brazil between 2003 and 2022: relationship with regional and global crises.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Suicide among Indigenous peoples in Brazil from 2000 to 2020: a descriptive study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023Article
- Impact of the lockdown by the COVID-19 pandemic on suicidal trend in the Colombian Coffee Region.Heliyon · 2023Article
- The influence of the age-period-cohort effects on male suicide in Brazil from 1980 to 2019.PloS one · 2023Article
- Differential impact on suicide mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2022Article
- Cultural adaptation of the mental health first aid guidelines for assisting a person at risk of suicide in Brazil: a Delphi expert consensus study.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Relationship between the Bolsa Família national cash transfer programme and suicide incidence in Brazil: A quasi-experimental study.PLoS medicine · 2022Article
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purposeUnderstanding long-term patterns of suicide methods can inform public health policy and prevention strategies. In Brazil, firearm-related policies may be one salient target for suicide prevention. This study describes trends in method-specific suicide at the national and state-levels in Brazil, with a particular focus on firearm-related suicides.
methodsBrazilian mortality data for suicide and undetermined intent among people aged 10 years and older between 2000 and 2017 were obtained from the National Mortality Information System. We examined national and state-level trends in age-standardised suicide rates for hanging, self-poisoning, firearms, jumping from a high place, other, and unspecified methods. We also compared total rates of mortality from suicide and undetermined intent over the period. Applying Joinpoint regression, we tested changes in trends of firearm-specific suicide rates.
resultsThe total suicide rate increased between 2000 and 2017. Rates of hanging, self-poisoning by drugs or alcohol and jumping from a high place showed the largest increases, while firearm-specific suicide rates decreased over the study period. Trends in methods of suicide varied by sex and state.
conclusionIt is of public health concern that suicide rates in Brazil have risen this millennium. Restricting access to firearms might be an effective approach for reducing firearm-specific suicides, especially in states where firearm availability remains particularly high. Treatment and management of substance misuse may also be an important target for suicide prevention policies. More work is needed to understand the causes of rising suicide rates in Brazil and to improve the mental health of the population.
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