Suicide Clusters Among Top 10 High-Risk Occupations: A Study From 2001 to 2016 in Australia. Issue 12 (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Too, Lay San; Spittal, Matthew J.
• Is Part Of: Journal of nervous and mental disease. Volume 208:Issue 12(2020:Dec.)
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: Suicide cluster -- suicide contagion -- occupation -- suicide -- work -- employment; Neurology -- Periodicals; Psychiatry -- Periodicals; Neurology; Psychiatry; Neurologie; Psychiatrie; Neurology; Psychiatry; Periodicals; 616.8005
• DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001234
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-3018

Abstract

Abstract : Abstract: A number of studies have demonstrated elevated risk of suicide in certain occupational groups. We seek to understand a possible new risk factor: suicide contagion, as demonstrated through a suicide cluster analysis. National-level coronial data and census population data were used for the study. We calculated suicide rates to identify "risky" occupations. SaTScan v9.4.1 was used to perform Poisson discrete scan statistic. Suicides occurring in arts and media professionals, construction, manufacturing, and skilled animal and horticultural workers seemed to cluster in time and/or space. Those working in construction settings were at risk of being in both time and space clusters.