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EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRIC SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 263-267Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S2045796012000649
Keywords
Ageing; epidemiological transition; survival analysis; youth suicide
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- Turn The Tide of Suicide
- National Lottery
- National Office for Suicide Prevention
- ESB Electric Aid
- Be Not Afraid
- Padraig Harrington Foundation
- Ireland Funds of Monaco
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5 Aims. Youth and young adult suicide has increasingly appeared on international vital statistics as a rising trend of concern in age-specific mortality over the past 50 years. The reporting of suicide deaths in 5-year age bands, which has been the international convention to date, may mask a greater understanding of year-on-year factors that may accelerate or ameliorate the emergence of suicidal thoughts, acts and fatal consequences. The study objective was to identify any year-on-year period of increased risk for youth and young adult suicide in the UK and Ireland. Methods. Collation and examination of international epidemiological datasets on suicide (aged 18-35) for the UK and Ireland 2000-2006 (N = 11 964). Outcome measures included the age distribution of suicide mortality in international datasets from the UK and Ireland, 2000-2006. Results. An accelerated pattern of risk up to the age of 20 for the UK and Ireland which levels off moderately thereafter was uncovered, thus identifying a heretofore unreported age-related epidemiological transition for suicide. Conclusions. The current reporting of suicide in 5-year age bands may conceal age-related periods of risk for suicide. This may have implications for suicide prevention programmes for young adults under age 21.
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