Suicide mortality in the United States following the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain.
CONCLUSION AND RELEVANCE: These findings demonstrate that mortality following celebrity suicides can occur at a similar magnitude to that observed for other public health emergencies. They underscore the urgency for interventions to mitigate imitation effects after celebrity suicide reporting.
PMID: 33300363 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sinyor M, Tran US, Garcia D, Till B, Voracek M, Niederkrotenthaler T Tags: Aust N Z J Psychiatry Source Type: research
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