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Occupational class differences in suicide: evidence of changes over time and during the global financial crisis in Australia

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Psychiatry, September 2015
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Title
Occupational class differences in suicide: evidence of changes over time and during the global financial crisis in Australia
Published in
BMC Psychiatry, September 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12888-015-0608-5
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Authors

Alison J. Milner, Heather Niven, Anthony D. LaMontagne

Abstract

Previous research showed an increase in Australian suicide rates during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). There has been no research investigating whether suicide rates by occupational class changed during the GFC. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the GFC-associated increase in suicide rates in employed Australians may have masked changes by occupational class. Negative binomial regression models were used to investigate Rate Ratios (RRs) in suicide by occupational class. Years of the GFC (2007, 2008, 2009) were compared to the baseline years 2001-2006. There were widening disparities between a number of the lower class occupations and the highest class occupations during the years 2007, 2008, and 2009 for males, but less evidence of differences for females. Occupational disparities in suicide rates widened over the GFC period. There is a need for programs to be responsive to economic downturns, and to prioritise the occupational groups most affected.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Unknown 62 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 10 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 14%
Student > Master 9 14%
Researcher 5 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Other 11 17%
Unknown 17 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 12 19%
Social Sciences 10 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 5%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 23 36%
Attention Score in Context

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#431,133
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#106
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#5,746
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#2
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