SynthesisJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2022
A Systematic Review of the Effects of Urban Living on Suicidality and Self-Harm in the UK and Ireland.
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- Assessing the Polarising Impacts of Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods: A Community Perspective from Birmingham, UK.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Neighborhood predictors of suicide and firearm suicide in Detroit, Michigan.Injury epidemiology · 2024Article
- Association Between COVID-19 and Self-Harm: Nationwide Retrospective Ecological Spatiotemporal Study in Metropolitan France.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Proximity of alcohol outlets and presentation to hospital by young people after self-harm: A retrospective geospatial study using the integrated data infrastructure.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Self-harm and rurality in Canada: an analysis of hospitalization data from 2015 to 2019.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Article
- Mortality risk following self-harm in young people: a population cohort study using the Northern Ireland Registry of Self-Harm.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Article
- Exposure to Green, Blue and Historic Environments and Mental Well-Being: A Comparison between Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Display and Flat Screen Exposure.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- City Environment and Occurrence of Neural Autoantibodies in Psychiatric Patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
We conducted a systematic review to answer the following: (a) Is there any evidence to support increased prevalence of suicidality and self-harm (i.e. self-harm or suicidality) in urban versus rural environments? (b) What aspects of the urban environment pose risk for suicidality and self-harm? Thirty-five studies met our criteria. Our findings reflect a mixed picture, but with a tendency for urban living to be associated with an increased risk of suicidality and self-harm over rural living, particularly for those living in deprived areas. Further research should focus on the clustering and additive effects of risk and protective factors for suicidality and self-harm in urban environments.
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