An analysis of the impact of suicide prevention messages and memorials on motorway bridges.
bridge
media reporting
prevention
suicidal behaviour
suicide
Journal
Suicide & life-threatening behavior
ISSN: 1943-278X
Titre abrégé: Suicide Life Threat Behav
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7608054
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2021
08 2021
Historique:
revised:
26
10
2020
received:
26
05
2020
accepted:
26
10
2020
pubmed:
13
2
2021
medline:
21
10
2021
entrez:
12
2
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Recently, there has been activity at public locations where people have died by suicide, including the erection of suicide prevention messages and memorials (decorations). This research looks at the impact of these decorations and associated media coverage of the decorations on suicidal behaviour at bridges. Incidents (n = 160) of suicidal behaviour on 26 bridges across motorways in England were analysed. Overall, there was no significant difference in the proportion of incidents pre-decoration versus post-decoration (p-value = .55). The incident rates were not significantly different pre- and post-decoration (p = .46). Only one bridge had statistically significantly more incidents post-decoration and media reporting (p = .03). However, following correction for multiple testing there was no significant difference in pre- and post-incident rates at any of the bridges. In total, 58% of bridges had a greater frequency of incidents when decorations were absent; however, this proportion was not statistically significant (p = .41). Further research is required to establish how suicide prevention messages are perceived. There does not appear to be any benefit, but it often generates media coverage which has been shown to increase risk.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
657-664Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Association of Suicidology.
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