Time trends in coroners' use of different verdicts for possible suicides and their impact on officially reported incidence of suicide in England: 1990–2005
| Autor: | Olive Bennewith, Claudia Wells, Emily Klineberg, David Gunnell, Navneet Kapur, John E. Cooper, Sarah Steeg, Cathryn Rodway, Sue Simkin, Lesley Sutton, Keith Hawton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Poison control medicine.disease Suicide prevention Open verdict Occupational safety and health Coroner Suicide Psychiatry and Mental health England Accidents Cause of Death Accidental Injury prevention Humans Medicine Medical emergency business Psychiatry Coroners and Medical Examiners Applied Psychology Inquest |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Medicine. 43:1415-1422 |
| ISSN: | 1469-8978 0033-2917 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0033291712002401 |
| Popis: | BackgroundOfficial suicide statistics for England are based on deaths given suicide verdicts and most cases given an open verdict following a coroner's inquest. Previous research indicates that some deaths given accidental verdicts are considered to be suicides by clinicians. Changes in coroners' use of different verdicts may bias suicide trend estimates. We investigated whether suicide trends may be over- or underestimated when they are based on deaths given suicide and open verdicts.MethodPossible suicides assessed by 12 English coroners in 1990/91, 1998 and 2005 and assigned open, accident/misadventure or narrative verdicts were rated by three experienced suicide researchers according to the likelihood that they were suicides. Details of all suicide verdicts given by these coroners were also recorded.ResultsIn 1990/91, 72.0% of researcher-defined suicides received a suicide verdict from the coroner, this decreased to 65.4% in 2005 (ptrend p ConclusionsBetween 1990/91 and 2005, the proportion of researcher-defined suicides given a suicide verdict by coroners decreased, largely due to an increased use of accident/misadventure verdicts, particularly for deaths involving poisoning. Consideration should be given to the inclusion of ‘accidental’ deaths by poisoning with medicines in the statistics available for monitoring suicides rates. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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