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D Lester

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PubMed1991

The relationship between war and homicide rates.

A time-series study from 1933 to 1986 in the USA showed that the nation's military participation rate was concurrently associated with lower homicide rates among nonwhite but not white individuals.

Cross-Sectional Studies↗
PubMed1991

The relationship between divorce, unemployment and female participation in the labour force and suicide rates in Australia and America.

Identical data sets for Australia and the USA from 1946 to 1984 were analysed to explore the association of unemployment rates, female participation in the labour force and divorce with suicide rates. While female participation in the labour force was related to suicide rates in Australia, unemployment was not. For the USA, both female participation in the labour force and unemployment were related to suicide rates.

Australia↗
PubMed1991

Trends in the methods used for suicide in Northern Ireland.

As domestic gas was made less toxic in Northern Ireland during the period 1960-1988, it was used less often for suicide. During the same period, as car ownership increased, the use of car exhaust for suicide increased in popularity without there being a corresponding decrease in the use of other methods. Part of the temporal variation in suicide rates in Northern Ireland may be accounted for by the relative availability of lethal methods for suicide.

Data Collection↗
PubMed1991

A study of different types of suicide notes.

A study of suicide notes in West Berlin revealed that those leaving instructions in their notes were younger, more often Catholic and having problems with work, loneliness and addiction. Those including wills and testaments were older, more likely to be female and widowed/divorced, and more likely to have recently experienced the death of a partner.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1991

Do suicide prevention centers prevent suicide?

States with a higher concentration of suicide prevention centers in 1970 had higher suicide rates in 1970 but experienced less of an increase in the suicide rates during the next decade. The results of this study, therefore, provide some support for the beneficial impact of suicide prevention centers on the communities that they serve.

Community Mental Health Centers↗
PubMed1991

The study of suicidal lives.

Thirty suicides about whom book-length biographies have been written were examined in the framework of the ten statements formulated by Leenaars for each of his ten theories of suicide. Suicides who fit well with particular theories were identified, and the theories compared both for their success in describing the suicides and for their similarity with one another.

Biographies as Topic↗
PubMed1991

High school and college students' attitudes toward rape.

This study explored the relationship between agreement with myths about rape and the tendency to blame the victim in a sample of high school and college students. It was found that high school males believed more strongly than did both high school females and college males in myths about rape, and they assigned greater blame to the victims of rape. For both high school males and females, belief in myths about rape was associated with assigning more blame to the victims.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1991

Social correlates of youth suicide rates in the United States.

The 1980 suicide rate of youths in the United States were found to be associated with three clusters of social variables: social integration, the age structure, and race/region. These associations also were found for older groups, suggesting similarities in the impact of social variables on regional suicide rates.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Time-series analyses of the American suicide rate.

A time-series study of suicide in the USA from 1940 to 1984 explored the extent to which social and economic variables could predict the actual suicide rate, the smoothed trend in the suicide rate, and deviations of the actual suicide rate from the smoothed trend. It was found that the social and economic variables were more successful in predicting the smoothed trend in the suicide rate.

Cross-Sectional Studies↗
PubMed1990

The sex distribution of suicides by age in nations of the world.

The ratio of the male suicide rate to the female suicide rate for each age group in 31 nations of the world was found to be associated with the wealth of the nations. The male/female suicide rate ratio was lower in wealthier nations for older adults and higher in wealthier nations for youths. The male/female suicide rate ratio was associated over the nations among the younger age groups and also among the older age groups. These results suggest that the sex ratio may be differently determined in youths and in older adults.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Suicide and the menstrual cycle.

A review of studies on the variation in suicidal behavior over the menstrual cycle identified only five studies with data presented in sufficient detail that they could be pooled, providing a sample of 400 menstruating women. A deficit in acts of attempted suicide in week three of the cycle was revealed, and it was suggested that this supports a hormonal explanation of the variation.

Female↗