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Suicide rates in Irish counties: 10 years later

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

John F Connolly  and
David Lester
John F Connolly
Affiliation:
Bord Sláinte an Iarthair, Centre for the Study of Suicide, Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland
David Lester
Affiliation:
Centre for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, New Jersey, United States
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Abstract

Objectives: This exploratory study was designed to explore the social correlates of suicides rates of Irish counties.

Method: Suicide rates were calculated for Irish counties and subdivisions for the period 1988-1994 and correlated with social data for these regions obtained from the 1991 Census.

Results: The suicide rates showed a low level of reliability for the periods 1978-1984 and 1988-1994, and the social correlates of suicide rates changed between the two periods. Whereas age structure was associated with suicide rates in 1978-1984, urbanisation was associated with suicide rates in 1988-1994.

Conclusions: It is important to check the reliability of results of ecological studies of Irish suicide rates. Furthermore, the impact on suicide rates of the changing role of women in Ireland needs to be explored in time-series studies of the Irish suicide rate.

Keywords

SuicideIrish countiesCensusSocial indicatorsSuicide correlations
Type
Original Papers
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 2001 , pp. 87 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2001

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