Not discussed: Inequalities in narrative text data for suicide deaths in the National Violent Death Reporting System.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The rate of suicide in the US has increased substantially in the past two decades, and new insights are needed to support prevention efforts. The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), the nation's most comprehensive registry of suicide mortality, has qualitative text narratives that describe salient circumstances of these deaths. These texts have great potential for providing novel insights about suicide risk but may be subject to information bias.

Objective

To examine the relationship between decedent characteristics and the presence and length of NVDRS text narratives (separately for coroner/medical examiner (C/ME) and law enforcement (LE) reports) among 233,108 suicide and undetermined deaths from 2003-2017.

Methods

Generalized estimating equa

SUBMITTER: Mezuk B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8284808 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature