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Intimate partner problems and suicide: are we missing the violence?

BACKGROUND: Suicide consistently ranks in the top ten causes of death nationally. The purpose of this study was to develop a novel coding scheme to determine what percentage of suicide cases from 2005-2015 in Kentucky involved violence when intimate partner problems were identified. Currently, resea...

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Autores principales: Brown, Sabrina, Seals, Jacqueline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6420923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30636256
http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v11i1.997
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description BACKGROUND: Suicide consistently ranks in the top ten causes of death nationally. The purpose of this study was to develop a novel coding scheme to determine what percentage of suicide cases from 2005-2015 in Kentucky involved violence when intimate partner problems were identified. Currently, researchers using the national dataset, containing these data, only have the option to identify in-timate partner problems unless each case is reviewed individually. METHODS: Data from the Kentucky Violent Death Reporting System from 2005-2015 were used to create a subset of cases where intimate partner problems were identified and qualitative and quantita-tive analysis of the death scene investigation incident narratives was conducted to identify cases where intimate partner violence also contributed to the suicide. RESULTS: Intimate partner problems were identified in 1,327 (26%) of all suicide cases where circumstances were known and intimate partner violence in 575 (43%) cases identified as having intimate partner problems. There was an argument or fight in 30% of cases where intimate partner problems were identified and most were immediately followed by the suicide. CONCLUSIONS: We did find supporting evidence of our hypothesis that there is a great deal of underlying and outright violence in intimate relationships, which is exacerbating the risk of suicide. This detailed coding schema guided abstractors to better identify intimate partner violence in suicides, which could be easily replicated.
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spelling pubmed-64209232019-03-20 Intimate partner problems and suicide: are we missing the violence? Brown, Sabrina Seals, Jacqueline J Inj Violence Res Injury &Violence BACKGROUND: Suicide consistently ranks in the top ten causes of death nationally. The purpose of this study was to develop a novel coding scheme to determine what percentage of suicide cases from 2005-2015 in Kentucky involved violence when intimate partner problems were identified. Currently, researchers using the national dataset, containing these data, only have the option to identify in-timate partner problems unless each case is reviewed individually. METHODS: Data from the Kentucky Violent Death Reporting System from 2005-2015 were used to create a subset of cases where intimate partner problems were identified and qualitative and quantita-tive analysis of the death scene investigation incident narratives was conducted to identify cases where intimate partner violence also contributed to the suicide. RESULTS: Intimate partner problems were identified in 1,327 (26%) of all suicide cases where circumstances were known and intimate partner violence in 575 (43%) cases identified as having intimate partner problems. There was an argument or fight in 30% of cases where intimate partner problems were identified and most were immediately followed by the suicide. CONCLUSIONS: We did find supporting evidence of our hypothesis that there is a great deal of underlying and outright violence in intimate relationships, which is exacerbating the risk of suicide. This detailed coding schema guided abstractors to better identify intimate partner violence in suicides, which could be easily replicated. Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences 2019-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6420923/ /pubmed/30636256 http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v11i1.997 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Intimate partner problems and suicide: are we missing the violence?
title_full Intimate partner problems and suicide: are we missing the violence?
title_fullStr Intimate partner problems and suicide: are we missing the violence?
title_full_unstemmed Intimate partner problems and suicide: are we missing the violence?
title_short Intimate partner problems and suicide: are we missing the violence?
title_sort intimate partner problems and suicide: are we missing the violence?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6420923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30636256
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