TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Suicide notes in Hong Kong in 2000
JO  - Death studies
A1  - Wong, Paul W. C.
A1  - Yeung, April W. M.
A1  - Chan, Wincy S. C.
A1  - Yip, Paul S. F.
A1  - Tang, Arthur K. H.
SP  - 372
EP  - 381
VL  - 33
IS  - 4
N2  - Suicide notes have been regarded as one of the most informative data sources to understand the reasons why people commit suicide. However, there is a paucity of suicide note studies, leaving researchers with an assumption that this phenomenon remains static over time. This study examines this assumption by comparing the characteristics of note-leavers of the same population at 2 different points in time. The authors investigated the characteristics of 316 note-leavers in 2000 in Hong Kong and compared them to note-leavers in 1992. The proportion of people who left suicide notes increased from 20% to 35% between 1992 and 2000, a change that may be related to changes in suicide methods. Note-leavers in 2000 were characterized as individuals aged 25-59 years old, employed, with no physical illness, no psychiatric illness, and died as a result of charcoal-burning. Present data suggest that reasons for leaving suicide notes may have changed over the 8 years from 1992 to 2000.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0748-1187
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -