Citation

van Houwelingen CA, Kerkhof AJ, Beersma DG. J. Affect. Disord. 2010; 127(1-3): 281-286.

Affiliation

GGz Eindhoven, P.O. Box 909, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jad.2010.06.005

PMID

20580436

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Little is known about train suicide and factors influencing its prevalence. This study tests the hypotheses that railway density, railway transportation volume, familiarity with railway transportation and population density contribute to train suicide. It also tests the relationship between train suicide and general population suicide and examines the prevalence and the characteristics of high-risk locations and their contribution to the grand total of train suicides. METHODS: Trends in train suicides were compared with trends in railway track length, train kilometres, passenger kilometres and national suicide figures over the period 1950-2007. The geographical distribution over the national network over the period 1980-2007 was studied. Data were obtained from The Netherlands Railways, Prorail and Statistics Netherlands. RESULTS: LIMITATIONS: Most conclusions are based on correlational relationships between variables. CONCLUSIONS:

Language: en