Suicide Prevention Research and Statistics

Follow the links below to find research and statistical information on suicide and suicide prevention in Australia.

Reviewed January 2008

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Title:   Wanting to end your life
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   If you are feeling suicidal or want to end your life, it's important that you keep yourself safe. Try to remember that thoughts about taking your life are just thoughts. They do not mean you have to act on them. This factsheet gives you a range of coping strategies, which you can use when you're feeling suicidal or when things feel hopeless.
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   A manual to guide the development of local evaluation plans: evaluating initiatives within the LIFE Framework using a program logic approach
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This Manual helps projects funded under the LIFE Framework to identify indicators and measures that could be used to evaluate their activities.
Date:   Dec 2003
Title:   Assessment and management of people at risk of suicide
Publisher:   Ministry of Health (MoH) (New Zealand),New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZGG)
Description:   This is a resource for clinical staff in emergency departments and mental health clinicians assessing and working with people who have made a suicide attempt, or are suicide risks. It is based on explicit evidence and synthesised expert opinion.
Date:   May 2003
Title:   International suicide rates: recent trends and implications for Australia
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This report examines recent trends in suicide around the world and across the lifespan. It identifies patterns in suicide mortality, examines the possible impact of national suicide prevention strategies and mental health plans and substance use policies on suicide rates, and considers other factors that may impact on suicide trends, such as unemployment, increased use of antidepressant medications, and cohort effects.
Date:   Jan 2003
Title:   Suicide and hospitalised self-harm in Australia
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report on suicide and hospitalised self harm in Australia, provides the latest data available on age and sex distribution, methods used, and present trends for suicide deaths. The report also describes the shortcomings of the data and the implications for interpreting the data.
Date:   Apr 2001
Title:   Ageing and suicide
Publisher:   National Advisory Council on Suicide Prevention, Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
Description:   This report provides suicide statistics for all age groups both internationally and in Australia, followed by more detailed consideration of ageing and suicide.
Date:   Jan 2001
Title:   LIFE: Learnings about suicide
Publisher:   Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
Description:   This publication sets the context for suicide prevention activity and provides a profile of the incidence of suicide and the current knowledge of risk and protective factors across different age, population and identified at risk groups.
Title:   Detection and management of young people at risk of suicide: guidelines for primary care providers
Publisher:   Ministry of Youth Affairs (NZ)
Description:   The aim of these guidelines is to assist primary care providers to recognise young people, between 12 and 25, at risk of suicide and provide appropriate management or well informed referral to secondary services.
Date:   Sep 1999
Title:   National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy: setting the evidence-based research for Australia: a literature review
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Description:   The reviews were commissioned to provide a summary of the current state of research in the area of youth suicide, based on both Australian and international data, and to highlight key gaps in knowledge.
Title:   Preventing youth suicide
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Common risk factors for youth suicide are outlined and ways that parents may help prevent suicide in their children are suggested.
Date:   Aug 1997
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