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Social factors and Australian farmer suicide: a qualitative study

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Farmers and farm workers have been recognised as a group at high risk of suicide in Australia; however this risk is not without geographic and demographic variation.
Meg Perceval, Victoria Ross, Kairi Kõlves, Prasuna Reddy, Diego De Leo   +4 more
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Suicides in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: analysis of Queensland Suicide Register

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2014
Objective: Suicide rates among Indigenous Australian children are higher than for other Australian children. The current study aimed to identify factors associated with Indigenous child suicide when compared to other Australian children.
Rebecca Soole, Kairi Kõlves, Diego De Leo   +2 more
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A nationwide study on time spent on social media and self-harm among adolescents

Scientific Reports, 2023
Self-harm among adolescents has increased in many countries, but few studies have examined possible explanations. One explanation could be the changes in the way adolescents socialize and use of social media.
Anita Johanna Tørmoen, Martin Øverlien Myhre, Anine Therese Kildahl, Fredrik Andreas Walby, Ingeborg Rossow   +4 more
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Suicide and suicide attempts in the Pacific Islands: A Systematic Literature Review

The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific, 2021
Background: The Pacific Islands have some of the highest rates of suicide in the Western Pacific region. The purpose of this study was to systematically review the literature on suicidal behaviour in the Pacific Islands.
Sharna Mathieu, Diego de Leo, Yu Wen Koo, Stuart Leske, Benjamin Goodfellow, Kairi Kõlves   +5 more
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Suicide Among Miners in Queensland, Australia

SAGE Open, 2013
A body of international and Australian research demonstrates connections between certain types of occupations and elevated suicide rates, relative to suicide rates observed in other occupations or within the general population.
Samara McPhedran, Diego De Leo
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Suicide attempt risks among hotline callers with and without the coronavirus disease 2019 related psychological distress: a case-control study

BMC Psychiatry, 2021
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic profoundly impacts on mental health, yet it is still unclear whether COVID-19 distress makes people more vulnerable to suicidal behavior.
Yongsheng Tong, Kenneth R. Conner, Yi Yin, Liting Zhao, Yuehua Wang, Mengjie Wu, Cuiling Wang   +6 more
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Restricting access to a suicide hotspot does not shift the problem to another location. An experiment of two river bridges in Brisbane, Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2014
Background: Restricting access to lethal means is a well‐established strategy for suicide prevention. However, the hypothesis of subsequent method substitution remains difficult to verify.
Chi‐kin Law, Jerneja Sveticic, Diego De Leo   +2 more
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Guiding principles for the implementation of a standardized psychological autopsy to understand and prevent suicide: a stakeholder analysis

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
BackgroundAround 700,000 people die by suicide each year. While the global number of suicides declined over the last decade, the rates remained unchanged in the Netherlands.
Elias Balt, Karlijn Heesen, Arne Popma, Renske Gilissen, Saskia Mérelle, Daan Creemers   +5 more
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Police Views of Suicidal Persons and the Law Criminalizing Attempted Suicide in Ghana: A Qualitative Study With Policy Implications

SAGE Open, 2017
The penal code of Ghana condemns suicide attempt. The present study sought to explore the views of the police on persons who attempt suicide and the law criminalizing the act.
Joseph Osafo, Charity S. Akotia, Emmanuel N.-B. Quarshie, Kofi E. Boakye, Johnny Andoh-Arthur   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detecting changes in help seeker conversations on a suicide prevention helpline during the COVID− 19 pandemic: in-depth analysis using encoder representations from transformers

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Preventatives measures to combat the spread of COVID− 19 have introduced social isolation, loneliness and financial stress. This study aims to identify whether the COVID-19 pandemic is related to changes in suicide-related problems for help ...
Salim Salmi, Saskia Mérelle, Renske Gilissen, Rob van der Mei, Sandjai Bhulai   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source