Irish coroners’ attitudes towards suicide and its prevention

Farrow, Raymond; Arensman, Ella; Corcoran, Paul; Williamson, Esther; Perry, Ivan J.

doi:10.1007/s11845-008-0261-9

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“…Prior research found that approximately one in five subjects reported a favourable attitude towards suicide as a means to end one's life, in particular when they were confronted with a severe incurable disease (Farrow et al 2009;Wright 2012). Research suggests differences between men and women's attitudes toward suicide regarding: ''permissiveness factor'' for example, in the case of an individual with an incurable disease (Dahlen and Canetto 2002).…”

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Gender Differences Related to Attitudes Toward Suicide and Suicidal Behavior

Poreddi

Thimmaiah²,

Ramu

et al. 2015

Community Ment Health J

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This descriptive study examined gender differences related to attitudes toward suicide among randomly selected urban residents. Data was collected using a standardized questionnaire through face-to-face interview. Our findings revealed that men hold more pro preventive attitudes to help persons with suicidal thoughts (80.3 %, p = 0.05) and agreed that suicidal attempts are impulsive (78.6 %, p = 0.01). However, they hold permissive attitude to help persons with incurable diseases and expressing death wishes to die (66 %, p = 0.05). A majority of men (78.6 %) than women agreed that "suicidal attempt is essentially a cry for help" (χ (2) = 11.798, p = 0.05). These gender differences need to be taken into consideration when developing appropriate programs to prevent suicide. Further, decriminalizing the law, high-quality research and raising awareness about suicide prevention among the general population is crucial in developing countries like India.

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confidence: 99%

Gender Differences Related to Attitudes Toward Suicide and Suicidal Behavior

Poreddi

Thimmaiah²,

Ramu

et al. 2015

Community Ment Health J

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“…Impetus for the decrease in autopsy rates may have emanated from changing attitudes among physicians, medical students, and relatives of suicide victims toward autopsies, which in turn could have affected the allocation of funding. 20,21,[43][44][45][46][47][48][49] At a higher level of abstraction, an ever-increasing demand for costeffectiveness in the health system may have decreased autopsy rates and diverted available funds to other priorities, such as improvement of mental health services. Hence, decreasing suicide rates may be a joint product of artifactual factors that increase misclassification and substantive factors that improve mental health treatment.…”

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Declining Autopsy Rates and Suicide Misclassification

Kapusta

Tran²,

Rockett³

et al. 2011

Arch Gen Psychiatry

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“…Moreover, reliable and valid suicide data may be rarely available in developing countries. In countries with coronial systems, research has shown that coroners may differ in findings of suicide, the interpretation of evidence, and the interpretation and application of coronial law relating to suicide determination in practice [4,6,7]. Undercounting or misclassification of suicide is of great concern within the academic and public health sphere [8,9].…”

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Why Do We Agree to Disagree? Agreement and Reasons for Disagreement in Judgements of Intentional Self-Harm from Coroners and a Suicide Register in Queensland, Australia, from 2001 to 2015

Leske,

Weir,

Adam

et al. 2023

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Suicides are likely to be underreported. In Australia, the National Coronial Information System (NCIS) provides information about suicide deaths reported to coroners. The NCIS represents the findings on the intent of the deceased as determined by coroners. We used the Queensland Suicide Register (QSR) to assess the direction, magnitude, and predictors of any differences in the reporting of suicide in Queensland. Therefore, we conducted a consecutive case series study to assess agreement and variation between linked data from the NCIS and QSR determinations of suicide for all suicide deaths (N = 9520) in the QSR from 2001 to 2015 recorded from routinely collected coronial data. The rate of concordance between the QSR and NCIS for cases of intentional self-harm was 92.7%. There was disagreement between the findings in the data, since 6.3% (n = 597) were considered as intentional self-harm in the QSR but not in the NCIS, and, less commonly, 0.9% (n = 87) were considered intentional self-harm in the NCIS but not in the QSR. Overall, the QSR reported 510 more suicides than the NCIS in 15 years. These findings indicate that using suicide mortality data from suicide registers may not underreport suicide as often.

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Irish coroners’ attitudes towards suicide and its prevention

Abstract: Irish coroners favour communication about suicide and have a positive attitude towards its prevention but they appear to underestimate the prevalence of mental illness.

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Gender Differences Related to Attitudes Toward Suicide and Suicidal Behavior

Gender Differences Related to Attitudes Toward Suicide and Suicidal Behavior

Declining Autopsy Rates and Suicide Misclassification

Why Do We Agree to Disagree? Agreement and Reasons for Disagreement in Judgements of Intentional Self-Harm from Coroners and a Suicide Register in Queensland, Australia, from 2001 to 2015

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