@article{ref1,
title="Effects of a province-based strategy to prevent suicide using charcoal burning: a preliminary time series analysis",
journal="Psychiatry investigation",
year="2019",
author="Jo, Sun-Jin and Yun, Mi Kyung and Lee, Myung-Soo",
volume="16",
number="8",
pages="621-624",
abstract="The suicide rate in Korea has been declining steadily after peaking in 2011. However, to date, time-series analyses of Korean suicide rate data have mainly addressed factors related to increases in suicide rates. This study analyzed one of the most important evidence-based public health strategies to decrease suicide, that is, preventive effects of restricting access to lethal means via a charcoal-selling procedure improvement campaign, using multivariate time series analysis. The results showed the campaign in Gyeonggi Province had a significant effect on decreasing the number of charcoal-burning suicides in this area. It is believed that the present study has important implications in terms of providing the first empirical evidence for the charcoal-selling procedure improvement campaign in Korea. Further repeated research is needed to evaluate the impact of the intervention when the more enough observational data become available.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1738-3684",
doi="10.30773/pi.2019.06.13",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.30773/pi.2019.06.13"
}