@article{ref1,
title="Identifying typologies of persons who died by suicide: characterising suicide in Victoria, Australia",
journal="Archives of suicide research",
year="2018",
author="Clapperton, Angela and Bugeja, Lyndal and Newstead, Stuart V. and Pirkis, Jane",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="1-16",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To determine whether people who died by suicide form groups based on demographic, psychosocial, mental and physical health factors and exposure to stressors. <br><br>METHODS: Retrospective case series review of persons who died by suicide in Victoria, Australia (2009-2013). A two-stage cluster analysis was performed. <br><br>RESULTS: The total sample comprised 2839 persons. Diagnosis of mental illness was present in 52% of cases. Initial analysis determined two groups with the main predictor of group membership being presence of diagnosed mental illness. Further analysis identified four subgroups within the mental illness group and two within the non-mental illness group. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Suicide does not always occur in the context of mental illness; people who die by suicide cannot be considered a homogenous group.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1381-1118",
doi="10.1080/13811118.2018.1507855",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2018.1507855"
}