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  • Suicide Prevention and Method Restriction: Evaluating the Impact of Limiting Access to Lethal Means Among Young Australians

    Author(s)
    McPhedran, Samara
    Baker, Jeanine
    Griffith University Author(s)
    McPhedran, Samara
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    Given the finite resources allocated to suicide prevention, it is necessary to direct resources into interventions that are most likely to have an impact. This article tests for possible impacts on youth suicides of a cost-intensive Australian policy change (increased firearms restriction) that limited access to a means of suicide. Suicide rates by different age groups and methods were examined for structural breaks, using Zivot-Andrews and Quandt tests. No breakpoint was found in firearm suicide among Australian youth around the time of the 1996 legislative changes. Method restriction in the form of firearms legislation ...
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    Given the finite resources allocated to suicide prevention, it is necessary to direct resources into interventions that are most likely to have an impact. This article tests for possible impacts on youth suicides of a cost-intensive Australian policy change (increased firearms restriction) that limited access to a means of suicide. Suicide rates by different age groups and methods were examined for structural breaks, using Zivot-Andrews and Quandt tests. No breakpoint was found in firearm suicide among Australian youth around the time of the 1996 legislative changes. Method restriction in the form of firearms legislation could not be tied to a corresponding impact on youth suicide.
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    Journal Title
    Archives of Suicide Research
    Volume
    16
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2012.667330
    Subject
    Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/50809
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