Risk factors associated with suicide clusters in Australian youth: Identifying who is at risk and the mechanisms associated with cluster membership.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is unclear who is at risk of being involved in a suicide cluster and whether suicide clusters are influenced by the social transmission of suicidal behaviour, assortative relating, or a combination of both.

Methods

Suicide clusters involving two or more young people were identified from the free text of electronic police and coroners reports in Australia's National Coronial Information System in a nationwide cross-sectional study. The duration of survival among exposed cases were estimated using time-to-event methods. The casewise concordance of demographic, social and clinical characteristics and circumstances of death were examined among index and exposed cases.

Findings

We identified links between 117 young people (51 suicide clusters). 50% of young p

SUBMITTER: Hill NTM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7691728 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature