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- Title
Nonresident suicides in England: a national study.
- Authors
Windfuhr, Kirsten; Bickley, Harriet; While, David; Williams, Alyson; Hunt, Isabelle M; Appleby, Louis; Kapur, Navneet; National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness
- Abstract
Little is known about the numbers and characteristics of people who travel away from home before dying by suicide. Therefore, this studied attempts to identify the sociodemographic characteristics, location, and method of suicide in people who died distant from home, in a national sample. Data were collected on all English suicides and a patient population; nonresident suicides resided in one Health Authority but died in a different one. Twelve percent of suicides were nonresident and features of these included: young age, social adversity, and severe mental illness. In conclusion, both individual- and area-based factors are likely to contribute to suicide away from home.
- Publication
Suicide & life-threatening behavior, 2010, Vol 40, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
1943-278X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1521/suli.2010.40.2.151