Citation

Ajdacic-Gross V, Killias M, Hepp U, Haymoz S, Bopp M, Gutzwiller F, Rossler W. Eur. Psychiatry 2010; 25(7): 432-434.

Affiliation

Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Militärstr. 8, POB 1930, 8021 Zürich, Switzerland; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.04.006

PMID

20621451

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the association between the availability of firearms at home, and the proportion of firearm suicides in Switzerland in an ecological analysis. The data series were analysed by canton and yielded a fairly high correlation (Spearman's rho=0.60). Thus, the association holds also at a sub-national level.

Language: en