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Alternative Title:
Am J Ind Med
Personal Author:
Peek-Asa, Corinne ; Zhang, Ling ; Hamann, Cara ; Davis, Jonathon ; Casteel, Carri
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Description:
Introduction:

Both suicides overall and work-related suicides are increasing in the United States, and efforts to reduce suicide risk will require understanding of the frequency and role of work in suicides. This study examines the incidence of occupational suicides using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), which identified the role of work in suicides using the traditional death certificate as well as from death investigations.

Methods:

NVDRS suicides among those aged 16 through 65 from 2013 through 2017 were examined to identify if the death certificate identified the death as work-related, if the death investigation identified a job problem as a suicide circumstance, and if the death investigation identified that the job problem was a crisis at the time of the suicide.

Results:

Overall, 1.13% of death certificates identified the suicide as work-related, 2.34% of suicides included a job crisis, and 11.2% a job problem, and proportions did not vary over the years of the study. Overlap between the death certificate and death investigation was very low, with only 0.21% of suicides identified as related to work by both sources. Identification of work-relatedness varied by source for demographic characteristics, mechanism of suicide, and occupation. For example, the death certificate identified 2.1% of suicides among those working in protective services as work-related, but death investigations identified 15.2% as having a job problem.

Conclusion:

Work-related factors may be associated with a far higher proportion of suicides than previously documented.


Subjects:
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Age Distribution Cause Of Death Homicide Humans Population Surveillance Prevalence Suicide
Source:
Am J Ind Med. 64(7):585-592
Pubmed ID:
33861483
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC8841116
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
R49 CE003095/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R49CE003095/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; U19 OH008868/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
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Place as Subject:
United States
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CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:d6914d455254bd05b3e74a2e45147adec4d57490035f4ff7bf3a166aebcb9233
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/114460/cdc_114460_DS1.pdf
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