Rural-urban differences in suicide rates for current patients of a public mental health service in Australia

Title: Rural-urban differences in suicide rates for current patients of a public mental health service in Australia
Creator: Sankaranarayanan, Anoop; Carter, Gregory; Lewin, Terry
Relation: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior Vol. 40, Issue 4, p. 376-382
Relation: http://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/suli.2010.40.4.376
Publisher: Guilford Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: Rural versus urban rates of suicide in current patients of a large area mental health service in Australia were compared. Suicide deaths were identified from compulsory root cause analyses of deaths, 2003–2007. Age-standardized rates of suicide were calculated for rural versus urban mental health service and compared using variance of age-standardized rates with 95% confidence intervals. There were 44 suicides and the majority (62%) were rural. Only urban patients used jumping from heights as a method of suicide (4/17; p = 0.02). Rural patients had 2.7 times higher rates of suicide, similar to findings for rural versus urban community suicides and may reflect the underlying community rates, differences in mental health service delivery, or socioeconomic disadvantage.
Subject: rural inequalities; urban inequalities; psychiatric patients; suicide rates; public mental health services; Australia
Identifier: uon:9643
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/922821
Identifier: ISSN:0363-0234
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