Journal article
Suicide among health professionals in Australia: A retrospective mortality study of trends over the last two decades
K Petrie, S Zeritis, M Phillips, N Chen, F Shand, MJ Spittal, SB Harvey
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | Published : 2023
Abstract
Objective: To examine the relative risk of suicide among healthcare professionals compared to other occupations and examine changes in suicide rates over time. Methods: Suicide cases were identified using the National Coronial Information System and were included if they were recorded as a death by intentional self-harm between 2001 and 2017 and were by an employed adult aged 20–69 with a known occupation at the time of death. Suicide methods were reported descriptively. Workforce data at the population level was extracted from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011 Census. Age-standardised suicide rates per 100,000 person-years for each of the four occupational groups were calculated usin..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Health through the Caring for Those Who Care Project (4-52FZJ5A; grant paid to the institution) and the NHMRC Investigator Grant (competitive grant paid to institution). S.B.H. is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant (1178666). K.P. is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship and by the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention (CRESP; GNT1152952) and NSW Health. M.J.S. is a recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (project number FT180100075) funded by the Australian Government. The funding groups played no role in the design, execution, analyses, interpretation of the data, writing of the manuscript, preparation of slides or presentation at congresses, or any other aspect of the study.