Title

Suicide Notes In Hong Kong In 2000

Abstract

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. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Publication Title

Death Studies

Volume

33

Issue

4

Number of Pages

372-381

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/07481180802705791

Socpus ID

64849109451 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/64849109451

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