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

NTM Hill; MJ Spittal; J Pirkis; M Torok; J Robinson

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

NTM Hill, MJ Spittal, J Pirkis, M Torok, J Robinson

Eclinicalmedicine | ELSEVIER | Published : 2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100631

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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: W..

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Funding Acknowledgements

NTMH is a PhD student and was supported by the Australian Rotary Health PhD Partnership Scholarship. MS is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (grant number FT180100075). JP is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant (grant number GNT1173126). MT is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellowship (grant number GNT1138710). JR is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellowship (grant number GNT1142348). The funders of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report. The corresponding author had full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.