TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Is there any link between celebrity suicide and further suicidal behaviour in India?
JO  - International journal of social psychiatry
A1  - Menon, Vikas
A1  - Kar, Sujita Kumar
A1  - Marthoenis, Marthoenis
A1  - Arafat, Sm Yasir
A1  - Sharma, Ginni
A1  - Kaliamoorthy, Charanya
A1  - Ransing, Ramdas
A1  - Mukherjee, Srijeeta
A1  - Pattnaik, Jigyansa Ipsita
A1  - Shirahatti, Nikhilesh B.
A1  - Varadharajan, Natarajan
A1  - Padhy, Susanta Kumar
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - BACKGROUND: Little is known about the factors that determine vulnerability to subsequent suicide in the community following a celebrity suicide. Our objective was to investigate the link between an alleged celebrity suicide and further suicidal behaviour in the community in India.     METHODS: Relevant news articles that reported suicidal behaviour in the population were retrieved from online news portals of regional and English language newspapers in the immediate month following the actor's death. A deductive analysis of the retrieved suicide news articles was carried out using a pre-designed data extraction form.     RESULTS: A total of 1160 relevant news articles were identified from the local language (n = 985) and English (n = 175) newspapers. For a sizeable percentage of these reports (n = 65, 5.6%), the media reported links with celebrity suicide. Odds of subsequent suicide among young (Odds Ratios [OR] - 9.24), female (OR - 1.94), unemployed (OR - 7.26), those without precipitating life events (OR - 2.94) or mental illness (OR - 1.69) were higher among those with link to celebrity suicide; likewise, odds of death by hanging (OR - 49.84) and leaving a suicide note (OR - 2.03) were higher among those linked to celebrity suicide. English newspapers (OR - 4.23) were more likely to report events linked to celebrity suicide than local language newspapers.     CONCLUSION: Persons who died by suicide by hanging after a celebrity suicide are more likely to be young, female, unemployed, have a mental disorder or precipitating life events. Suicide prevention efforts must focus on this group and prevent the same method of suicide like that of the celebrity.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0020-7640
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020764020964531
ID  - ref1
ER  -