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A comparative analysis of solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts using the National Violent Death Reporting System

BACKGROUND: Incidents of suicide can be categorized into three main types: solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts. Although these three suicide incidents vary by definition, no studies to-date have simultaneously examined and compared them for potential differences. The ob...

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Main Authors: Ashley, Jenna, Kim, Kawon Victoria, Russell, Cayley, Lange, Shannon
Format: Online Article Text
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2023
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Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9808963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36593442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04495-w
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Kim, Kawon Victoria
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Lange, Shannon
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description BACKGROUND: Incidents of suicide can be categorized into three main types: solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts. Although these three suicide incidents vary by definition, no studies to-date have simultaneously examined and compared them for potential differences. The objective of the current study was to empirically and descriptively compare solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts in the United States. METHODS: Restricted-access data from the National Violent Death Report System for 2003–2019 for 262,679 solitary suicides, 4,352 suicides following homicide, and 450 suicide pacts were used. Pairwise comparisons of the three suicide incident types were made for demographic factors, method of suicide, preceding circumstances, mental health status, and toxicology findings. RESULTS: Solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts have distinct profiles, with statistically significant (p < 0.05) differences across all pairwise comparisons of sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, education, method of suicide, financial problems, interpersonal relationship problems, physical health problems, mental health problems, mood disorders, suicide attempt history, and opiate use at the time of death. CONCLUSION: Despite sharing a few commonalities, solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts represent distinct phenomena. Each of these suicide incident types likely have their own unique prevention pathways. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12888-022-04495-w.
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spelling pubmed-98089632023-01-04 A comparative analysis of solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts using the National Violent Death Reporting System Ashley, Jenna Kim, Kawon Victoria Russell, Cayley Lange, Shannon BMC Psychiatry Research BACKGROUND: Incidents of suicide can be categorized into three main types: solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts. Although these three suicide incidents vary by definition, no studies to-date have simultaneously examined and compared them for potential differences. The objective of the current study was to empirically and descriptively compare solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts in the United States. METHODS: Restricted-access data from the National Violent Death Report System for 2003–2019 for 262,679 solitary suicides, 4,352 suicides following homicide, and 450 suicide pacts were used. Pairwise comparisons of the three suicide incident types were made for demographic factors, method of suicide, preceding circumstances, mental health status, and toxicology findings. RESULTS: Solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts have distinct profiles, with statistically significant (p < 0.05) differences across all pairwise comparisons of sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, education, method of suicide, financial problems, interpersonal relationship problems, physical health problems, mental health problems, mood disorders, suicide attempt history, and opiate use at the time of death. CONCLUSION: Despite sharing a few commonalities, solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts represent distinct phenomena. Each of these suicide incident types likely have their own unique prevention pathways. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12888-022-04495-w. BioMed Central 2023-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9808963/ /pubmed/36593442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04495-w Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Ashley, Jenna
Kim, Kawon Victoria
Russell, Cayley
Lange, Shannon
A comparative analysis of solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts using the National Violent Death Reporting System
title A comparative analysis of solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts using the National Violent Death Reporting System
title_full A comparative analysis of solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts using the National Violent Death Reporting System
title_fullStr A comparative analysis of solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts using the National Violent Death Reporting System
title_full_unstemmed A comparative analysis of solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts using the National Violent Death Reporting System
title_short A comparative analysis of solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts using the National Violent Death Reporting System
title_sort comparative analysis of solitary suicides, suicides following homicide, and suicide pacts using the national violent death reporting system
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9808963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36593442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04495-w
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