TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Rural-urban differences in suicide rates for current patients of a public mental health service in Australia
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Sankaranarayanan, Anoop
A1  - Carter, Gregory
A1  - Lewin, Terry
SP  - 376
EP  - 382
VL  - 40
IS  - 4
N2  - Rural versus urban rates of suicide in current patients of a large area mental health service in Australia were compared. Suicide deaths were identified from compulsory root cause analyses of deaths, 2003-2007. Age-standardized rates of suicide were calculated for rural versus urban mental health service and compared using variance of age-standardized rates with 95% confidence intervals. There were 44 suicides and the majority (62%) were rural. Only urban patients used jumping from heights as a method of suicide (4/17; p = 0.02). Rural patients had 2.7 times higher rates of suicide, similar to findings for rural versus urban community suicides and may reflect the underlying community rates, differences in mental health service delivery, or socioeconomic disadvantage.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2010.40.4.376
ID  - ref1
ER  -