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Article: Predictors of suicides occurring within suicide clusters in Australia, 2004-2008
Title | Predictors of suicides occurring within suicide clusters in Australia, 2004-2008 |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Indigenous suicides NCIS Suicide clusters Scan statistics Suicide Australia |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Citation | Social Science and Medicine, 2014, v. 118, n. C, p. 135-142 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.A number of studies have investigated the presence of suicide clusters, but few have sought to identify risk and protective factors of a suicide occurring within a cluster. We aimed to identify socio-demographic and contextual characteristics of suicide clusters from national and regional analyses of suicide clusters. We searched the National Coroners Information System for all suicides in Australia from 2004 to 2008. Scan statistics were initially used to identify those deaths occurring within a spatial-temporal suicide cluster during the period. We then used logistic regression and generalized estimation equations to estimate the odds of each suicide occurring within a cluster differed by sex, age, marital status, employment status, Indigenous status, method of suicide and location. We identified 258 suicides out of 10,176 suicides during the period that we classified as being within a suicide cluster. When the deceased was Indigenous, living outside a capital city, or living in the northern part of Australia (in particular, Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia) then there was an increased likelihood of their death occurring within a suicide cluster. These findings suggest that suicide clustering might be linked with geographical and Indigenous factors, which supported sociological explanations of suicide clustering. This finding is significant for justifying resource allocation for tackling suicide clustering in particular areas. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/240742 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 4.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.954 |
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dc.contributor.author | Derek Cheung, Yee Tak | - |
dc.contributor.author | Spittal, Matthew J. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Williamson, Michelle Kate | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tung, Sui Jay | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pirkis, Jane | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-12T01:46:43Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-12T01:46:43Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Social Science and Medicine, 2014, v. 118, n. C, p. 135-142 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0277-9536 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/240742 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.A number of studies have investigated the presence of suicide clusters, but few have sought to identify risk and protective factors of a suicide occurring within a cluster. We aimed to identify socio-demographic and contextual characteristics of suicide clusters from national and regional analyses of suicide clusters. We searched the National Coroners Information System for all suicides in Australia from 2004 to 2008. Scan statistics were initially used to identify those deaths occurring within a spatial-temporal suicide cluster during the period. We then used logistic regression and generalized estimation equations to estimate the odds of each suicide occurring within a cluster differed by sex, age, marital status, employment status, Indigenous status, method of suicide and location. We identified 258 suicides out of 10,176 suicides during the period that we classified as being within a suicide cluster. When the deceased was Indigenous, living outside a capital city, or living in the northern part of Australia (in particular, Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia) then there was an increased likelihood of their death occurring within a suicide cluster. These findings suggest that suicide clustering might be linked with geographical and Indigenous factors, which supported sociological explanations of suicide clustering. This finding is significant for justifying resource allocation for tackling suicide clustering in particular areas. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Social Science and Medicine | - |
dc.subject | Indigenous suicides | - |
dc.subject | NCIS | - |
dc.subject | Suicide clusters | - |
dc.subject | Scan statistics | - |
dc.subject | Suicide | - |
dc.subject | Australia | - |
dc.title | Predictors of suicides occurring within suicide clusters in Australia, 2004-2008 | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.08.005 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 25112568 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84927136996 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 246150 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 118 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | C | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 135 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 142 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1873-5347 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000342880900017 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0277-9536 | - |